{"id":281,"date":"2019-01-16T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsm.prolerat.org\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:20:45","slug":"the-environment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate Change: Capitalism Can’t cope<\/a><\/p>\n

Last October the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on what they consider would have to be done, and by when, to avoid average global temperature rising by the end of the century by more than 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n

Sceptical About Doomsday?<\/a><\/p>\n

Bjorn Lomborg’s ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ vs Lester Brown’s ‘Eco-Economy’ on the state of the planet<\/p>\n

Stockholm, Rio and Beyond<\/a><\/p>\n

The failure of the United Nations to prevent a global ecological crisis<\/p>\n

Eco-Socialism<\/a><\/p>\n

Only world socialism can ensure sustainability<\/p>\n

Agenda 21\u2014Funding Failure<\/a><\/p>\n

How the 1992 Earth Summit failed to deliver<\/p>\n

Profit-Depleting Agreements<\/a><\/p>\n

Profit takes priority as global warming continues<\/p>\n

Earth Summit II Ends in Failure<\/a><\/p>\n

Review of the 1997 Conference in New York<\/p>\n

Climate Change\u2014A Familiar Story From Kyoto<\/a><\/p>\n

International struggle to agree on reducing carbon emissions<\/p>\n

Trading Loopholes at the Hague<\/a><\/p>\n

Year 2000 international global warming conference fails to reach agreement<\/p>\n

Profit Enhancing Chemicals<\/a><\/p>\n

Profit takes priority as ozone depletion continues<\/p>\n

Deforestation<\/a><\/p>\n

Profit takes priority as deforestation rates escalate<\/p>\n

World Fisheries Reach Crisis Point<\/a><\/p>\n

Overfishing and the unsustainable drive for profit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate Change: Capitalism Can’t cope Last October the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on what they consider would have to be done, and by when, to avoid average global temperature rising by the end of the century by more than 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. Sceptical About Doomsday? Bjorn Lomborg’s ‘The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2081,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5698,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/5698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/wsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}