The Economy of the Burning Planet
Climate collapse is not a failure of individual virtue. It is the predictable result of a system that lets private profit become public damage.
This is part two in my series on the extractive economy, see part one here:
The climate crisis doesn’t always arrive looking like the end of the world.
Sometimes it arrives as the smell of smoke in a child’s bedroom, even though the fire is burning hundreds of miles away. Sometimes it arrives as a wet towel pushed under a door, an air purifier running all night, and a mother checking the air quality app before deciding whether her child can play outside. Or maybe it arrives as a higher electric bill during a heat wave, because the apartment is too hot to sleep in and the body can only take so much.
