For those concerned with the fate of the earth, the time has come to
face facts: not simply the dire reality of climate change but also
the pressing need for social-system change. The failure to arrive at
a world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009 was not
simply an abdication of world leadership, as is often suggested, but
had deeper roots in the inability of the capitalist system to address
the accelerating threat to life on the planet. Knowledge of the
nature and limits of capitalism, and the means of transcending it,
has therefore become a matter of survival. In the words of Fidel
Castro in December 2009: "Until very recently, the discussion [on the
future of world society] revolved around the kind of society we would
have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive."
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/100301magdoff-foster.php>Link
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