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"We know that the depletion of natural resources at a pace utterly disproportionate to the needs of the world population, air and water pollution, the effects of war, devastation of forests, and intensive agriculture are direct consequences of industrial activity, as well as factors decreasing the general public’s quality of life. More serious still is capitalism’s distribution of costs and benefits, whereby the areas most affected by the severe exploitation of nature are the exact same areas occupied by the poorest people, and those most deprived of the benefits of technological development and industrial production.
This report has some positive aspects, as it highlights the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the need to hit the established targets. However, it fails to make the necessary analysis of the reasons why, conference after conference, these targets are not being hit. The solution to this environmental problem cannot be found within the framework of the irrational economic and social system that caused it. Failure to acknowledge and discuss this premise and the insistence on a capitalist approach to this problem, in which market instruments such as carbon emission trading schemes feature prominently, does not give rise to any optimism that the problem can be solved."@en1
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