This paper explores the narratives in New York 2140 that argue that climate change is driven by capitalism, which in turn changes how people experience climate change. Capitalism can be claimed as the main cause of global warming and the climate crisis, reducing the life span of many species on Earth. It is only right to try and reform capitalism or further remove it. The world is failing on the energy transition due to reasons that strike at the heart of capitalist economies, which will therefore be very difficult. The most fundamental question is whether a capitalistic society is capable of sharply reducing carbon emissions.
Yes, but capitalism has a unique way of rewarding greed and sociopathic behavior, and it just so happens that greedy sociopaths tend to care the least about the environment. Further, protecting the environment often means spending money with little to no expected profit, which is antithetical to capitalism. So while humans absolutely could have destroyed the earth under any other economic system, capitalism incentivized it the most for the widest group of people.
That is a wild and completely false statement…
I think the problem is you’re just accustomed to the current dystopian hellscape and you’ve fallen for the propaganda that this is “just capitalism and how it is”.
Stop doing that, billionaires spend a lot of our money trying to convince us of that. So that other people that don’t understand any of this just argue with you about labels and we never band together against the oligarchs.
Stop only caring about labels and actually think about this shit. That whole rambling no comment is just a bunch of buzzword labels you clearly don’t understand
Is capitalism the pursuit of profit über alles or not?
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That’s unregulated capitalism…
That is not ever capitalist society.
You’ve fallen for propaganda, just like trump voters who can’t define communism but blame it for fucking everything they don’t like…
Can you legitimately not understand that at least?
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Honestly it doesn’t matter, the only post in this community that’s ever gotten engagement is this one, and I’m not gonna hang around explaining shit
If it’d make you happy, I can clarify my comments to specify I’m talking about the current state of capitalism in the US