To waste or to waist
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
At the heart of both the environmental crisis and the obesity crisis is the capitalist market economy. It is the definition of capitalism that capital is multiplied.
Tag: capitalism
Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
The social order that capital’s apologists defend as inevitable and eternal is “the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a whole series of older formations of social production.” Acceptance of the wages-system as a natural way to live and work did not happen easily.
Noam Chomsky says we have no right to gamble with the lives of climate-vulnerable people: Video
By Stan Cox, Resilience.org
Prof. Chomsky has long argued that the roots of the climate emergency, and of our failure to deal with it, reach deep into the capitalist economic system.
Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Between the decline of feudalism and the rise of industrial capitalism, rural society was transformed by the complex of processes that are collectively known as enclosure.
Reparations would shake up American capitalism – and that’s a good thing
By Aaron White, Open Democracy
Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
But for the merchants who were the primary promoters, financiers and often warriors on the English side, it was an economic war — if they had read von Clausewitz, they might have said that their war was business conducted by other means.
Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
An important factor in the rise of the Dutch merchant-industrialist class, scarcely mentioned in many accounts, was the absolute dominance of the Dutch fishing industry in the North Sea.
The economic legacy of the Holocene
By Lisi Krall, Resilience.org
We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.
Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable
Einstein’s Take on Capitalism, Socialism, and a New Kind of Business
By Eduardo Sasso, Resilience.org
A glimpse at the headlines surrounding the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. reveals how we are still largely governed by the old dichotomy of business vs. society.
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
You see, the real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need to change in any fundamental way.