Ending Capitalism and replacing it with the highly successful _______________ system as demonstrated in _______________ (insert country). Feel free to fill in the gaps 
Yes that is a great big problem.
Alternatively learning a little more about the mechanisms of climate change would serve people well.
https://www.goesfoundation.com/
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You mean popular scientific blog, I think. One of many
Wikipedia, as most of us know, is (and has been) subjected to biased editing - a certain William Connelly springs readily to mind.
Anyone quoting Wiki… should bear in mind their disclaimer about the accuracy of the information on their pages…
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I just wonder if you have any answers to the questions Brian Milne asked you back in February 2013 when you last spouted and used the same links?
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It’s a blog, but it’s not scientific…
" Anthony Watts is a blogger, weathercaster and non-scientist, paid AGW denier (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AGW_denier) who runs the website wattsupwiththat.com . He does not have a university qualification and has no climate credentials other than being a radio weather announcer. His website is parodied and debunked at the website http://wottsupwiththat.com. Watts is on the payroll of the Heartland Institute (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute), which is funded by polluting industries."
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“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism . We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world”
Fredric Jameson
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Hummmm that’s nice. Doesn’t really fill in the gaps though…
That’s an easy one, Simon: any society in the whole history of humanity - except of course the capitalist system which emerged out of feudalism in Europe over the 15th-19th centuries, and more of the world only in the last 2 or 3 centuries - not long compared to many previous societies - and if you measure ‘success’ by ability not to completely ruin the planet - then even in its short lifetime capitalism doesn’t seem to be doing very well, does it?
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Sorry Geof - you lost me at 'That’s an easy one…’
Can’t you just fill in the gaps instead?
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is it agrarian and Cambodia?
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You’re getting warm (no pun intended!) David…keep going… 
democratic and Congo?
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Woops you just singed me there!! 
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How about FYR and Macedonia?
city states and Hellenic world?
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But it really is easy - after your ‘highly successful’ just choose any successful social system (except capitalism, obviously) anytime throughout history and anywhere in the world - for example ‘Ancient Rome’ - and after your ‘demonstrated in’ write in the location(s) - for Ancient Rome, for example, that would be Europe, Africa and Asia. You see?
Not the best quiz I’ve ever done though.
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I love Jameson Marijke!
Have you studied American literature by any chance?
Hi Geof,
Thanks for your wise words on this thread.
No I haven’t studied American literature. That quote by Jameson came up in a talk I went to a while ago.