Turning the Planet into an Uninhabitable Hell While capitalism’s latest child, Covid-19, rains death down on us, capitalism’s destruction of the planet is actually taking us down a path towards human extinction. According to a United Nations report published in September, the world has failed to meet any of the targets set in 2010 to protect biodiversity and one fifth of all countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing. The report concludes that “We are turning our only home into an uninhabitable hell for millions of people.” In addition to the biodiversity destruction, global heating gets steadily worse. None of the carbon emissions reduction goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference have been met. Instead we are heading for at least double the agreed temperature rise this century, between 3 and 5 degrees centigrade! Despite a fall in carbon emissions due to the coronavirus pandemic, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have continued to rise steadily and are now 417ppm – a rise of 33% since 1960. This means one thing only – more global heating. Polar ice sheets melt, forest fires rage from the US to Australia to Siberia, coral reefs die and we approach the dreaded tipping points, the points of no return where no human action makes any difference; yet the capitalist system is incapable of changing course!