Twenty-first century capitalist society appears constitutionally incapable of solving any problem. All it can do is to expunge symptoms. Perhaps capitalism has never been capable of correcting its own manners; but there have been times when the balance of forces compelled it to accept the shutdown of at least some root causes — decolonisation in the 1970s being one of the last cases. Because it now succeeds to excess, it keeps producing symptoms of crisis and stays unqualified for anything other than their most superficial treatment. In its excremental stage, capitalism is so bloated from victory, so unable to exercise any retention or restraint that it swims from one pool of its own shit into another and has to design new hazmat suits to keep going. Geoengineering would just be the latest, arguably the most all-embracing model.

— The Long Heat by Wim Carton, Andreas Malm (Page 278 - 279)