In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

  • ikt@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    In 2023, thousands of protesters attempted to dismantle one of the reservoirs in Sainte-Soline, clashing with the French police and armed forces in a battle featuring “stones, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails.”

    To Carton and Malm, the clash at Sainte Soline is an example of what happens when governments are faced with worsening climate impacts but decline to reduce emissions

    It’s hard to take the idea of not reducing emissions written by anyone from a western country, afaik not one western country has increased its emissions in the last 10 years.

    • solo@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I think you are right, but we also need to factor in that the west has been exporting its industrial production to other countries (cheaper labor, cheaper taxes etc). So it seems to be a tricky thing to see this by country.

      The way I see things, it’s more that the prevelant economic system dictates this kind of behavior, more than any one country. In the sense that the countries in power change, but they all follow some sort of capitalist model, which is also a form of neo-collonialism imo, at least when it comes from western countries . China is another story imo, that follows the economic model.