Revealed: the 'carbon bombs' set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown

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7. It's damned near impossible for an affluent North American not to be complicit in this.

The average resident of the U.S.A. or Canada has about three times the carbon footprint of any average human.

There are some paths forward, but many are rejected by conventional "Liberals" and "Conservatives" alike.

The most serious problem is that economic "productivity" as we now define it isn't truly any kind of productivity at all. It is, in fact, a direct measure of the damage we are doing to our planet's natural environment and our own human spirit.

There are far too many people selling us false solutions to this fundamental problem.

I'll start with Elon Musk. He's not doing a single fucking thing that will make the world a better place. Musk is just one guy. Fortunately he's beginning to lose his shine.

Unfortunately, too many of us are forced to suffer work that likewise does not make the world a better place. And it's not just the coal miners who are trapped in this predicament.