Tag: Capitalism
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Adam Aron’s “The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice Social Movements”: A Review Essay
Adam Aron’s The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements –Review Essay by Kim Scipes Cambridge University Press, 2023; Paperback; ISBN: 978 1108987158 Adam Aron has written an ambitious book, one he intends to be the book on the subject of the climate crisis; and he has succeeded in many ways, especially…
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Transforming Culture
“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” – Audre Lorde So long as capitalism dominates, there is no escaping its unrelenting assault on rational and humane cultural values and practices, most prominently today in the form of the consumerism purveyed in every media by commercial advertising. Even worse is the pervasive example…
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Addressing the Ravages of Capitalism: An Economic Perspective
“Capitalism’s War on the Earth”: The existential challenge of a moribund socio-economic system “…capitalism has remained essentially … what it was from the beginning: an enormous engine for the ceaseless accumulation of capital, propelled by the competitive drive of individuals and groups seeking their own self-interest in the form of private gain. Such a…
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Is degrowth an alternative to capitalism?
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The newest book by Giorgos Kallis, one of the most prolific degrowth advocates is entitled Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care. It is a short and accessible read which contains some important and unconventional arguments. In what follows, I will first briefly summarize the core arguments of the book, which promises…
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How Economists Tricked Us Into Thinking Capitalism Works
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In fact, the political economist Eleanor Ostrom actually won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for disproving the long-held belief known as the “tragedy of the commons,” a theory which held that resources held in common by communities would naturally be overused and depleted. Ostrom’s work demonstrated that this assumption is false, and that it…
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Achieving an Ecological Civilization: Introduction
We begin by way of a conclusion. The now globally dominant system through which we make our living in nature is capitalism. But capitalism is in process of self-destruction, now rapidly undermining the natural and social conditions for its own and humanity’s further existence. If we are not to go down with it, we…
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Capitalism’s Ownership of Global Warming
Capitalism not only owns global warming, there’s a big red mitigation arrow pointed at the heart of today’s rampant capitalism, which is eerily similar to the loosie goosie version of the Roaring Twenties, but with a high tech twist. After all, somebody’s got to pony-up for climate change/global warming mitigation. Who better than deep…
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An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point?
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The system of fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism is indeed moving toward an end of history, but only in the sense of the end of any historical advance of humanity as a productive, political, and cultural species due to the increasingly barbaric socio-economic and environmental conditions the system creates. There is now no alternative to the end…
