In a scathing rebuke to the elite capitalists and politicians who largely control the global economic and energy systems, Mexico’s newly-appointed environment secretary Víctor Manuel Toledo Manzur on Wednesday pointed a stern finger at the “parasitic and predatory neoliberals” for being the key culprits behind the planetary climate crisis. “Human beings are not responsible for global warming, as a superficial environmentalism and uncritical science would like to tell us,” said Toledo. “The responsible are a parasitic and predatory minority, and that minority has a name: neoliberalism.” “We can defend life, or we can continue destroying it in the name of the market, technology, progress, development, economic growth, etc.,” he said. He also vowed to put ecological and human concerns above the demands of capitalism and industrial powerbrokers.
— source commondreams.org | May 30, 2019