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I think for a long time there has been a hope that "green capitalism" would develop and naturally detach economic growth/prosperity from resource extraction and carbon emissions. This great hope that capitalism would basically fix the problem. It hasn't happened for several reasons and I think more and more people no longer think it's a viable hope.
For me two reasons stand out:
Obviously it requires negative impacts to be financially valued/costed. In theory this could still happen, but it's not just costing carbon emissions that would be needed.
Humans are too tied to the "useless physical shit we buy".
hoefla
My name isn't Hugo and cheers for the judgment. I'll refrain from making judgments about your name and the glaring ommison coal from your list.
I was pointing out that there is more than one way to skin a cat and the importance of keeping an open mind.
Our economy is 80% service based. While not easy, that gives plenty of scope for changing existing sub-sectors within the framework of our existing quasi-capitalist system, in a way not possible say if you're Saudi Arabia. Of course the useless physical shit we buy would have to change, but that's only one part of that sector - what if we had explosion of masseuse? And instead of buying new groupsets we all had 3-4 massages a week?
The example of a derivatives trader, was in a similar vein to Keynes's burying banknotes. It's a job that's part of a constant redistribution of wealth with no new wealth creation which doesn't necessarily require a high carbon footprint like say - retail or North Sea oil. The underlyings don't even matter anymore. rhb's goat story is another great example of potential possiblity of low impact pointless capitalism.
Fwiw I think there are plenty of fundamental issues with our current system and struggle to reconcile this with climate change. However, I think it's a bit basic to just slag it off and only propose or believe a quasi-communist is the solution, when there are probably a mirad of possibilities.
Also not to sound like a dick, but there is no coherence in what you wrote and it sounds like you're just vocalising the chips on your shoulder.
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