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Climate change demands immense changes to the economic system

Climate change demands immense changes to the economic system

by The Daily Eye Team March 19 2015, 12:34 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secs

Mark Lynas says: ?Solving climate change does not mean rolling back capitalism, suspending the free market or stopping economic growth? Save us from the miserabilists in the battle over climate change, 12 March). This statement would have made much sense 35 years ago. The urgency for rapid action had not been established. But all this has changed. Whether or not the new ?crisis? reinforces an ideological position on the left (despite splits over nuclear power and GM crops) leading to ?an outright denialist position? on the right is now so much water under the bridge.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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