Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.
Human nature is the reason. Regardless of the system we live in. People want more, better, etc. and feel important/strong/rich/… It has always been like that. Heck, even monkeys display such things.
100 thousand years ago you’d say human nature was to live in small bands and only assemble for seasonal hunts or cultural events. Anything else would be perpetual war.
10000 years ago you would be saying that it’s against human nature to be sedentary or do repetitive work so agriculture is ultimately only a hobby at best.
4000 years ago you’d say it’s human nature to live in city states ruled by tyrant warrior-kings and dedicate your life to cereal farming.
Maybe human nature isn’t some well characterised and stiff thing? humans have lived in more ways than you can dream of.