Counter-Revolution against Modernity

• Main Authors: Post-historic Primitivism, Frederic Bender
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: specializes in Marxism; critical theory; deep ecology; and Asian philosophy; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.579.5703; http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/download/993/1385/

We live today on a planet undergoing abrupt non-linear change, also known as overshoot and collapse, not least with respect to rapid rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide and equivalents, average global temperature, and sea level. The best science we have today, as represented by the Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of February 2007, predicts, as a baseline consensus, that atmospheric CO2 will at least double from pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million, compared to 368 ppm in 2000.1 The 2,500 scientists from over 130 nations responsible for the report predict average global temperatures will rise by 1.8 to 4.0 degrees (3.2 to 7.8 degrees Fahrenheit), but warn that greater warming cannot be ruled out.2 The global mean sea level will rise by 28 to 43 centimetres (11.2 to 17.2 inches) by 2100, with larger increases possible if ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland continue their rapid thawing.3 Beyond reasonable doubt the primary cause of these changes has been industrialized humanity: Homo colossus. Ubiquitous toxic pollution and ever-rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have been the by-products of industrialization since its inception, and have created pollution and climate change that is now so drastic as to define industrial civilization as the culture of extinction.