So Zizek is warning the Left [thus, an empty room] that we must not be “co-opted” by the challenge of climate change, and that we must attack it as a specific symptom of the capitalist system within which we live. Treat the symptom, and treat the disease, too. He goes on and makes a number of […]
I was not even remotely surprised to read that the G20 meeting produced nothing of substance vis-a-vis anthropogenic climate change–colloquially, global warming. Particularly infuriating was that there is still no mechanism for transferring funds to poorer nations to help them adapt to climate change. Adaptation costs used to be estimated at between 40 and 170 billion […]
