AND WHEN THE LAMPS WENT OUT ALL OVER EUROPE FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS SANK LIKE A STONE

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

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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 extraordinary – almost absurd – contrast between what we should be doing and what’s actually taking place fosters low-level climate denialism ...

In 1912, the international socialist movement had staged an emergency meeting in Basel in Switzerland ...  The  appeals to  humanity and reason did not move states 

The same might be said today. From a global perspective, the necessity to abandon fossil fuels cannot be denied....

Climate change has not yet spurred an equivalent of the mutinies in France or the revolution in Petrograd or the uprising in Berlin.

Yet Labor’s appalling equivocation ... illustrates the urgency with which we need a new and different type of politics.

The stakes could not be higher. Lamps are going out all over the natural world … and no one will ever see them lit again.

•Comrade Dave Spart  Jeff Sparrow  is a Guardian Australia columnist