#capitalism

Colonialism is not dead. It lives on in the North-South divide, a vast gulf of economic inequality and ecological exploitation.

Learn more in this speech delivered recently by Dr. Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo...
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The severity of the ecological crisis we are in stares every sane observer in the face. But the dominant analysis of this crisis and what to do about it is woefully inadequate.

We call it the Anthropocene, but we must be clear: it is not humans as such that are causing this crisis. Ecological breakdown is being driven by the capitalist economic system, and – like capitalism itself – is strongly characterized by colonial dynamics.

This is clear when it comes to climate change. The countries of the Global North are responsible for around 90% of all cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary – the emissions that are driving climate breakdown. By contrast the Global South, by which I mean all of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are together responsible for only about 10%, and in fact most Global South countries remain within their fair shares of the planetary boundary and have not contributed to the crisis at all.

And yet, the overwhelming majority of the impacts of climate breakdown are set to affect the territories of the Global South, and indeed this is already happening. The South suffers 80 to 90% of the economic costs and damages inflicted by climate breakdown, and around 99% of all climate-related deaths.

It would be difficult to overstate the scale of this injustice. With present policy, we are headed for around three degrees of global warming. At this level some two billion people across the tropics will be exposed to extreme heat and substantially increased mortality risk; droughts will destabilize agricultural systems and lead to multi-breadbasket failures; and hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.

Climate breakdown is a process of atmospheric colonization. The atmosphere is a shared commons on which all of us depend for our existence, and the core economies have appropriated it for their own enrichment with devastating consequences for all of life on Earth.
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There is much more, and I hope you’ll read the whole thing.

FULL SPEECH -- https://progressive.international/blueprint/1f26392c-176d-405e-948e-75a6333edc45-climate-energy-and-natural-resources/en

#Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

People who still think that capitalism will work out if we just regulate it enough or in the right way are the dumbest fucks around.

"But look at Scandinavian countries, it works there. I'd rather have that than Chinese communism."

1.) Your McCarthy is showing.
2.) There's more than one way to do this "communal" thing.
3.) Apart from bloody tankies most leftists agree with you that neither the Soviet Union, China or Cuba are worth aspiring to.

4.) Scandinavian countries are RICH and have to take care of relatively small populations.
5.) Scandinavian countries are RICH because of FOSSIL FUELS.

Think about this for a while and then shut the fuck up.

6.) Right wing/fascist parties are on the rise all over Scandinavian because even the well-regulated capitalism is failing. (for more examples: see Germany)

It cannot be reformed. It will not solve the issues it creates. #Capitalism has to go. It works in tandem with #fascism (see Joe Biden).

As long as you do not get into your head that antifascism, anticapitalism and anti-climate-crisis are the same fight, we will lose it.

New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.

He wrote in a column:
- “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
- “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
- “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
- “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
- “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”

#Politics #Fascism #StudentRevolt #Israel #US #Genocide #Capitalism #NYT