We all live for money and that is what we will die for

Capitalism is bringing us to the brink of the darkest abyss. The United Nations Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change, authored by 91 scientists, representing 40 countries and based on over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies, makes a horrifying reading. The climatologists discovered that if “greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit” by 2040, much earlier than had been thought. Humanity has only till 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change. if we’re to stave off an ecological apocalypse which we now know isn’t centuries in the future, not decades, but we've been warned by the world’s leading climate scientists that we have just twelve years to limit climate catastrophe. Soon it will be too late.

 A child born today will witness a world where close to all of the coral reefs will be extinct and where massive storms like Hurricane Florence or Hurricane Maria, which has nearly destroyed a Puerto Rico will be common. Where the social, cultural, and economic affects of climate change will result in pandemics, wars, famines, and genocides exacerbated by the effects of higher temperatures. We already see the effects in the increasing ferocity of storms, the droughts that mark not just the developing world, but increasingly North America and Europe, and in the wildfires, which have burnt their way across whole regions.
Alterations to human behavior which might lessen the worst effects of climate change are technically possible, though probably not politically feasible, as it would require direct action on the part of the industrial economies of the world, something with no documented historic precedent. 

As the global warming increases, we see not coordinated effort but nations moving toward reactionary nationalisms, placing their domestic economies ahead of global priorities,  punishing refugee populations often affected either directly or indirectly by climate change. The macabre logic of capitalism is to build walls and fences and be content to let millions of people starve in a parched land.

Can we expect the fossil fuel industries and Big Ag to avert catastrophe at the cost of their profits? It was capitalism which brought about the Apocalypse. The Four Horsemen are called "Property", "The Market", "Profit" and "Accumulation."

 Are we as people unable to imagine the actual passing of our way of life and the actual extinction not just of civilisation but perhaps ourselves as a species? Frederic Jameson famously noted, it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” The gulf between the future we’re entering and the future socialists once imagined grows ever wider. This situation was directly engendered by capitalism. It now still blinds by explaining that “It is simply the way  things are,” precluding even the possibility of different ways of arranging our world.

Never in the history of humans have we had such an abundance of organising resources such as the internet, social media and mobile phones. If we get excited about taking control  over the direction of our future, can we get others just excited about it as well? Let’s crystallise our ideas and act as catalysts for change, each of us taking a role in making this happen, and spread the word. House by house, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city, country by country.

 Don’t expect mainstream media to help and politicians are in the business of selling us the status quo. In the face of climate breakdown, we need to restructure the fundamentals of our global economic system to cultivate an environmentally sustainable society which prioritises a healthy eco-system instead of commodity production. There is a scenario where we can draw back from the precipice and redirect humanity to a fruitful future. It would, however, require us to rethink some of the sacrosanct beliefs of our modern world, beginning with the unquestioning reliance on perpetual economic growth within a global capitalist system, driven exclusively by the need to increase shareholder value for investors. It’s not just a matter of investing in renewables, eating less meat, and driving an electric car. The intrinsic framework of our global social and economic organisation needs to be transformed. In short, we need socialism, where the community would be the basic building block of society, with face-to-face interaction as a crucial part of human relationships and each community connected with others by principles of mutual respect and reciprocity. Technological innovation would still be encouraged, but would be prized for its effectiveness in enhancing social solidarity rather than making billionaires. With this vision where we are all interconnected in the web of life prosperity for everybody can be established on a healthy Earth.

One way or another, humanity is headed either for global collapse or a new foundation 

Abridged and adapted from here

https://www.alternet.org/capitalisms-final-solution-nothing-less-complete-ecological-collapse
and here
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/10/12/we-need-ecological-civilization-its-too-late