Climate change is a disaster foretold, just like the first world war | Jeff Sparrow

The warnings about an unfolding climate catastrophe are getting more desperate, yet the march to destruction continues“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”The mournful remark supposedly made by foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey at dusk on 3 August 1914 referred to Britain’s imminent entry into the first world war. But the sentiment captures something of our own moment, in the midst of an intensifying campaign against nature. Related: Arctic has warmest winter on record: 'It's just crazy, crazy stuff' It may seem impossible to imagine, that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we’re now in the process of doing.” Related: The Guardian view on snow and ice: it’s too cold here but too warm in the Arctic | Editorial Continue reading...