>Monbiot thinks there is a way. He even claims, in the last paragraph
>that he can show how how it can be done politically. ?? (The technical
>argument is irrelevant of course until the political way is discovered
>in practice.)
I think you're underestimating the flexibility of capitalism by saying there's no way climate change can be dealt with without a revolution. It would require heavy state intervention, of course, but with a business coalition made up of finance (insurance companies tired of paying out storm claims), car companies and utilities looking for R&D subsidies, and makers of new enviro technologies, together with affluent moderate to liberal voters worried about their survival (and that of their beach houses), it could happen.
Doug