Another issue the Monbiot article shows up is the question of education. How many people have a basic understanding of what global climate change involves and concerns? A fair few, but probably fewer than you think. How many people could explain clearly and concisely the relationship between the diminishing Article ice sheet and potentially colder winters in Britain? Probably very, very few.
This is a matter of education. Popular scientific understanding is already too low. This government's eager vandalising of the education system will reduce this even further. How much scientific endeavour provides immediate profit? Well, there is no immediate profit without years and years of research.
The three crises of capitalism, recession, war and long-term ecological damage require democratic solutions. Even with all the popular confusion regarding class and class struggle (economics made manifest) if the potential in our society is unlocked by a mass upsurge in democracy, I think we could quite easily and quickly solve our economic problems. The struggle against climate change will be much more long and difficult.
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