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Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism.
Overcoming the climate crisis will require a shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system. The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room. That's strange, because this particular elephant is so large, obvious, and all-encompassing that politicians and executives must contort themselves to avoid naming it publicly. That elephant is called capitalism, and it is high time to face the fact that, as long as capitalism remains the dominant economic system of our globalized world, the climate crisis won't be resolved.
- What's the alternative to capitalism? The article admits that there is very few workable alternatives. It seems the only real solution is to evolve capitalisim.Morning_star
- Post scarcity society living in equilibrium with nature?grafician
- On the other hand without capitalism we wouldn't have made it this far.
You can't really feed the planet without it.grafician - Another evolution, perhaps. There's quite a big difference between Henry Ford's and Amazon's versions of it.MrT
- @MrT I think it IS possible to evolve Capitalism and the current economic environment to be inherently more responsible. I see the green shoots of change...Morning_star
- ...happening through corporate SGE policies and the fact that investors are more discerning about where they put their cash.Morning_star
- I think what's needed is just to have governments fund green technologies and force society to transition. If they can make people literally stay in theiryuekit
- apartments for a month to fight a virus it should be possible.yuekit
- But when they talk about "worker coops" and stuff like that I wonder what the connection actually is to solving climate change.yuekit