This is a dangerous illusion, adds us Griffon, that with regard to climate change there are two levels that we must discuss and deal with. At one level we must clearly establish which is directly responsible for the problem. It is in this case none other than the global economic system. This system manages to reduce all people to mere consumers, thus ignoring the complexities inherent in any human being. In the framework of the neo-classical logic, the complexity of the human being is reduced to a morisqueta known as Homo economicus and assumes that the material needs of society are endless, reason why the market should offer infinite products. This, as already mentioned, poses the basic dilemma of this theoretical framework. However, it is also important to appreciate that this logic involves inevitably produce increased amounts of wastes, wastes that are essentially treated as externalities.

In this way the system privatized profits, while he socializes environmental problems. This is something that the ecology economy has demonstrated eloquently. Given the logic of the system, which raises growth and capital accumulation as a condition sine qua non for their existence, it is impossible in this framework to address and solve the problem root causes.