The Council on Foreign Relations is a neoliberal think tank beloved by centrists from both US political parties. CFR is an extremely powerful group in Washington. When they speak, almost everyone listens.
And what do they have to say about our rapidly escalating climate crisis?
Well, they’ve just issued a new statement promoting a strategy they call “Climate Realism.”
First, they acknowledge that the 1.5C target is dead. In fact, they say we now should expect global warming to reach at least 3° by the end of this century, if not sooner.
Second, they argue for the rapid development of geoengineering strategies, such as solar radiation management, to combat accelerating climate change.
Third, they say *nothing* about moving away from the destructive growth-at-any-cost outlook and making a pivot toward degrowth and climate justice. Nothing at all.
That is unfortunate, but totally predictable — because CFR and their members are fully invested in capitalism, neoliberalism, and American imperialism. No crisis could possibly shake them free from that poisonous mindset.
So this is where we’re headed. Rather than change course, they’ll take us straight to hell.
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https://www.cfr.org/article/we-need-fresh-approach-climate-policy-its-time-climate-realism
Climate scientists know. 
