Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”

The NYT special report on climate change fails to report on how capitalism in general and lobbying from Big Oil have played and still does play a major role in political processes. Naomi Klein at the Intercept addresses this:

.@NaomiAKlein‘s latest salvo is a must read. Rich’s exhaustive reporting is ultimately undone because he chooses to frame the failure to act on climate on philosophical grounds, and not, as Klein rightly argues, as the symptom of neoliberal avarice https://t.co/x4Ypgfir0a

— Neel V. Patel (@n_vpatel) August 3, 2018