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The climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
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Unpriced Environmental Costs: The Top Externalities of the Global Market
2024-08-07 (or before) in S&P Global S&P GlobalThe world’s publicly listed companies depend on natural capital for their operations yet cause trillions of dollars in environmental costs that are not accounted for each year.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
How Global Capital Killed Climate Science
2024-08-29 in TsakralidesAs the planet slips further into “uncharted territory”, a phrase which now almost every meteorologist uses, it is time for climate science to stop pretending: to admit, publicly, that climate scien…
Tagged under: Capitalism | Science
Capitalism Is Killing Us
2024-08-23 by in Counter PunchNeither politicians (across the continuum) nor corporate media pundits engage in meaningful public discourse on climate and the environment. They choose
Tagged under: Capitalism
Uneven Development through Profit Repatriation: How Capitalism's Class and Geographical Antagonisms Intertwine
2024-08-19 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryThis article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of global profit repatriation as a mechanism of uneven development, thereby challenging the development model of Foreign Direct Invest...
Tagged under: Capitalism
How to Force Capitalism to Stop Climate Change
2024-08-16 by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasCentral banks should stop pretending to be neutral about saving the planet.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa | Climate & Capitalism
2024-08-11 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusThe carbon offset market is an integral part of efforts to prevent effective climate action…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
2024-08-08 in The Irish TimesIf life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed
Tagged under: Capitalism
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis | A VISION FOR THE FUTURE | Podcast 8
2024-08-08 (or before) in YouTubeThis podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries 'In The Eye Of The Storm — The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis'. Watch it here: http://...
Tagged under: Capitalism | Degrowth
Unpriced Environmental Costs: The Top Externalities of the Global Market
2024-08-07 (or before) in S&P Global S&P GlobalThe world’s publicly listed companies depend on natural capital for their operations yet cause trillions of dollars in environmental costs that are not accounted for each year.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
How unpriced environmental costs exceed profits at a quarter of top corporates
2024-08-06 in Business GreenNew S&P report attempts to put a price on the environmental externalities that continue to fuel market failures around the world - and reaches some sobering conclusions
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Government action is needed if we are to reduce our demands on Earth’s resources and sustain life
2024-07-31 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsWe are running down our natural capital. Each year ends with the Earth having less forest, less biodiversity, less healthy soil and water, fewer fish in the sea, more pollution of our fresh water and more greenhouse gases blanketing the planet, heating it and destabilising the climate.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Water Resources | Activism | Legislation
Sewage pollution warnings at 11 Cornwall beaches today after heavy rain - Cornwall Live
2024-07-21 by in Cornwall LiveTagged under: Capitalism | Pollution | UK | Water Resources
JPMorgan, Barclays Warn of ‘Valley of Death’ for Climate Tech - Bloomberg
2024-07-03 in BloombergGreen innovators too advanced for venture capital but not advanced enough for infrastructure investors are falling through the cracks — and time is running out.
Tagged under: Innovation | Capitalism
In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
2024-07-03 in pcgamer.comIn city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive… and park.
Tagged under: Capitalism
The biggest banks are financing climate chaos | Climate & Capitalism
2024-06-11 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusSince the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels…
Tagged under: Capitalism | The Paris Agreement
Nonprofit connected to Leonard Leo sent millions to his firm
2024-06-09 (or before) in PoliticoThe Washington attorney general has been investigating whether Leo’s network skirted nonprofit rules.
Tagged under: Lobbying | Capitalism
'Capitalism won’t save the planet'
2024-05-03 (or before) in The EcologistReview of 'The Price is Wrong: why capitalism won’t save the planet' by Brett Christophers.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Feeling depleted? So is the planet. Here’s how to move from exhaustion to empowerment
2024-04-08 by in The ConversationA new book, The Exhausted Earth, outlines how capitalism leads to burnout - for people and planet. But regenerative solutions are possible if people focus on interconnectedness, not isolation.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Private equity is predatory capitalism with a long trail of destruction
2024-04-05 by in Left Foot ForwardThere won’t be enough money to contain the tsunami caused by private equity collapse. Yet there is no move to shackle private equity.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Collapse
Against free trade: Neoclassical and steady-state perspectives - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
2024-04-04 (or before) in Springer VerlagThe author argues against free trade as a “default position” for international trade. He shows that arguments for free trade based on comparative advantage do not hold in reality. First, free trade makes cost-internalization for single countries difficult leading to standard-lowering competition and misallocation. Second, the international mobility of capital leads to absolute rather than comparative advantage for single countries, thus leading to maldistribution. Finally, the ecological basis seriously limits the scope for catching-up. Priority should be given alternatively to domestic production of a steady-state t...
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Fed Blocks Tough Global Climate-Risk Rules for Wall Street Banks - Bloomberg
2024-04-03 in BloombergUS regulators, led by the Federal Reserve, have thwarted a push to make climate risk a focus of global financial rules, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Why the world cannot afford the rich
2024-03-12 in NatureEquality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones. Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
Tagged under: Economics | Consumption | Capitalism | Sustainability
SEC’s landmark Climate Disclosure Rule explained
2024-03-07 by in New Private MarketsThe SEC's long-awaited and controversial Climate Disclosure Rule will require registered companies to disclose material climate risks to their business strategies and operations, and GHG emissions for the largest companies.
Tagged under: USA | Regulation | Capitalism
Capitalists Have Found a Lucrative Fix to England’s Allotment Shortage | Novara Media
2024-01-24 in Novara MediaWith council waiting lists of up to 15 years for allotment plots, a group of business-savvy millennials is buying up land and selling it back to locals at a profit. It’s a neoliberal solution to a neoliberal problem, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.
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The Collapse of Modern Civilization | Richard Grannon
2024-01-17 in Collapse 2050"The Collapse of Modern Civilization" by Richard Grannon argues modern society has lost its way due to consumer capitalism and technological advancements.
Tagged under: Collapse | Capitalism
‘Cheaper to save the world than destroy it’: why capitalism is going green
2024-01-15 in The GuardianAkshat Rathi argues that around the world economies are switching to clean technology as prices drop
Tagged under: Economics | Electric Cars | Capitalism | Cars | India
Bill McKibben On Global Heating, Capitalism, Insurance, And Social Friction - CleanTechnica
2024-01-13 by in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsBill McKibben is musing about what happens to the global economy as insurance companies decline to offer coverage in some areas.
Tagged under: Economics | Insurance | Capitalism
The Logic of Austerity | Dillon Wamsley
2024-01-04 by in Phenomenal WorldOn Clara Mattei’s “The Capital Order”
Tagged under: Capitalism
Terms List - Carbon Tracker Initiative
2023-12-26 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeAs pioneers in bridging the gap between capital markets and tackling climate change, we have developed several key terms to explain some of the concepts.
Tagged under: Capitalism
The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water
2023-12-19 in BloombergBlueTriton Brands owns Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other bottled water brands. As it tries to grow, experts worry sensitive springs, creeks and groundwater supplies from Florida to California are paying the price.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Water Resources | California
Feeding the Beast: Superintelligence, Corporate Capitalism and the End of Humanity | Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
2023-12-14 (or before) in dl.acm.orgTagged under: Capitalism
What it Means When I’m Critical of Capitalism | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2023-12-13 in Eudaimonia and CoI get in trouble, sometimes, for being critical of…ta dum…capitalism. Eye roll. It’s painted as some kind of radical stance, Not a…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus
2023-12-01 in BMJ Global HealthScholarship on the social determinants of health and disease has become firmly established over the past several decades. This school of thought has created space for academics and health professionals to consider the structural factors that may produce ill health, generate health inequalities and prevent access to healthcare or other goods and services necessary for human welfare.1 Research on social determinants has been developed through attention to ‘structural violence’,2 ‘commercial determinants’3 and the ‘causes of the causes’ of disease.4 These are useful analytical developments. But ...
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data — Jason Hickel
2023-11-25 (or before) in Jason HickelTagged under: Degrowth | Capitalism
The Eight Deadly Sins of Analyzing the Energy Transition - RMI
2023-10-13 by in Rocky Mountain InstituteIdentifying 8 general errors of perspective that holds the clean energy transition back, wasting time and capital, and fueling pessimism.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Who Are the Climate Activists Dressing Up as Orcas?
2023-09-22 by in HyperallergicThe marine mammal has emerged as a symbol of the capitalism-driven destruction of the planet, with protesters “orcanizing” for Climate Week actions.
Tagged under: Activism | Capitalism
Remarks by Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Graham Steele at Event Hosted by the Brookings Institution's Assessing Insurance Regulation and Supervision of Climate-Related Financial Risk
2023-08-29 (or before) in home.treasury.govAs Prepared for Delivery Introduction Thank you, Carlos. It is my pleasure to be with you all today, both those in the room and watching virtually. As the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, my portfolio includes developing the Department’s policy views on banks, credit unions, consumer protection, access to capital, and financial sector cybersecurity matters. My remarks will focus on the work that Treasury, through the Federal Insurance office (FIO), is doing to understand and help address the financial risks that our changing climate poses in the insurance sector. Work on climate-related financial...
Tagged under: Drought | Finance | Climate Change | Housing | Insurance | Litigation | Economic Growth | California | Climate Change Impacts | Wildfires | Florida | Climate Change Mitigation | Capitalism
Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis
2023-08-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsLeading sociologists have approached the climate crisis by emphasising a way forward and identifying hopeful directions. What sense is to be made of suggestions that we are instead on the brink of ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism | Collapse
Technocrats Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
2023-08-20 (or before) in JacobinIn January, the Biden administration launched an ambitious plan for a valuation of all the United States' natural resources. But the initiative, which aims to encourage environmentally responsible investment, is naive and confused.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Capitalism
Neoextractivism and Territorial Disputes in Latin America: Social-ecological Conflict and Resistance on the Front Lines
2023-08-18 (or before) in routledge.comThis book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows. Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This constant expansion of the extractive frontier into new territories leads to forms of place-based res
Tagged under: Conflict | Capitalism
Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat
2023-08-17 in The GuardianBig corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft
Tagged under: Capitalism | Wildfires
The Future Is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part One
2023-06-29 (or before) in BrillAbstract As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures immediately. It would alleviate the symptoms of the crisis, not its causes. But might it be combined with radical emissions cuts? This essay, the first instalment of two, scrutinises the rationalist-optimist case for geoengineering: the idea that soot planes in the sky can shield the Earth from the worst heat while society rids itself of fossil fuels. A more likely outcome is that they encourage business-as-usual to continue, while negative si...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Geoengineering | Capitalism
Industrial farming has killed billions of birds | Climate & Capitalism
2023-06-06 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusScientists: Saving birds requires rapid transformative change…
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Capitalism
Coverup: Industry hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ | Climate & Capitalism
2023-06-01 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusSecret documents show 3M and Dupont suppressed knowledge of PFAS toxicity…
Tagged under: PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Capitalism
Feeding the Beast: Superintelligence, Corporate Capitalism and the End of Humanity
2023-05-27 (or before) in SlidesLive · Professional Conference RecordingTagged under: Capitalism
Capital’s long war to dispossess the poor | Climate & Capitalism
2023-05-11 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusCapitalism's wealth and power rests on centuries of expropriation…
Tagged under: Capitalism
XR activists bring HSBC's annual meeting to a halt in protest against its ‘shameful climate policies’
2023-05-05 in Morning StarTagged under: Capitalism | Activism | Extinction Rebellion
Inside Origin Energy’s $18.7b private capital job
2023-04-05 in Financial Review - Business, Finance and Investment News | afr.comFormer Bank of England governor Mark Carney explains why he wants to own Australia’s biggest electricity retailer, and what he plans to do with it.
Tagged under: Electricity | Capitalism
UK natural capital - Office for National Statistics
2023-03-31 (or before) in ons.gov.ukNatural capital accounts for peatlands measures the ecosystem services which nature provides from this dramatic landscape, including water, carbon sequestration, food and recreation.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Clean energy investment tops $US1 trillion, sits neck and neck with fossil fuels
2023-01-30 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyBloomberg New energy Finance says investment in low carbon energy has hit a new high – and for the first time reached parity with capital invested in fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Finance | Capitalism
Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist • Protean Magazine
2023-01-15 by in Protean MagazineEnergy researcher Nishikant Sheorey provides this primer on the field of degrowth: what it is, what it is not, and what its critics on the left get wrong. Far from being analogous to “austerity,” degrowth is instead deeply aligned with anti-capitalist values.
Tagged under: Degrowth | Capitalism
Investments' role in ecosystem degradation
2022-12-07 (or before) in Science | AAASIn their Review “Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change” (13 December 2019, p. eaax3100), Díaz et al. discuss the results of the first integrated global-scale assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors identify extraction of resources to provide food, feed, and industrial feedstocks as the main direct driver of the observed changes in the ecosystems on which humans depend. Socioeconomic and institutional factors represent the indirect drivers. Although Díaz et al. mention that tax havens channel funds to support illegal fis...
Tagged under: Fish | Capitalism
Going backwards the retreat from environmental commitments
2022-10-12 (or before) in Dieter HelmTagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
2022-09-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThis paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to a…
Tagged under: Capitalism
‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
2022-09-09 in The GuardianKohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
Tagged under: Japan | Capitalism
Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study
2022-09-08 in The GuardianBP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels | Capitalism
‘Cucumber capital’ growers selling up as Brexit and energy crisis hits Britain’s vegetable industry
2022-09-06 in The GuardianA flawed government plan for workers adds to problems as growers apply to pull down 60 hectares of greenhouses
Tagged under: Farming | Capitalism
Lotka's wheel and the long arm of history: how does the distant past determine today's global rate of energy consumption?
2022-09-03 (or before) in ESDAbstract. Global economic production – the world gross domestic product (GDP) – has been rising steadily relative to global primary energy demands, lending hope that technological advances can drive a gradual decoupling of society from its resource needs and associated environmental pollution. Here we present a contrasting argument: in each of the 50 years following 1970 for which reliable data are available, 1 exajoule of world energy was required to sustain each 5.50±0.21 trillion year 2019 US dollars of a global wealth quantity defined as the cumulative inflation-adjusted ...
Tagged under: Economics | Economic Growth | Climate Change Mitigation | Capitalism
Ask Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth
2022-08-02 (or before) in YouTubeA Patron of Economic Update asks: "I would love to hear you talk about degrowth. It's something I've been reading a little about for a few years. I probably ...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Economics | Capitalism
Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
2022-07-31 (or before) in The InterceptThe industry moved quickly to capture the narrative, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels | Russia
Republican Group of State Financial Officers Takes on Woke Capitalism - EXPOSEDbyCMD
2022-05-29 (or before) by in exposedbycmd.orgRepublican treasurers, auditors, and staff from 16 states are huddling together with corporate lobbyists and an array of right-wing groups for the State Financial Officers Foundation's Annual Meeting in New Orleans this week to discuss strategies to combat "woke" policies, fake news, and China.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Louisiana
Over 130 companies implement sustainability reporting metrics
2022-05-25 (or before) in The World Economic ForumA coalition of leading firms have co-created a comprehensive corporate system to highlight the need for an aligned and consistent ESG reporting system.
Tagged under: Coal | Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Book Review: A History of Monsanto and Its Toxic Legacy – The Wire Science
2021-12-31 (or before) in The Wire Science - The Wire ScienceTagged under: Capitalism
Sustainable Investing Is Mostly About Sustaining Corporations
2021-12-12 (or before) in BloombergWall Street uses ESG ratings to boost “sustainable” labels on stock and bond funds—but what do these ratings really measure?
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Finance
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
2021-12-09 (or before) in Films for ActionOur present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can...
Tagged under: Fish | Capitalism
Capitalism Reimagined: Seven dimensions of a better economic system - ImpactAlpha
2021-11-23 by in ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, Nov. 23 – In the not-too-distant future, a powerful and diverse movement has succeeded in redesigning the rules, practices, narratives and power relationships ...
Tagged under: Capitalism | Economics
Ethex - make money do good
2021-11-19 (or before) in ethex.org.ukMake ethical investments that fund extraordinary organisations. Make your money a powerful tool for change and get a fair return. Capital at risk.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Jason Hickel - Degrowth: The Path to Progress
2021-11-14 (or before) in YouTubeWe have been taught to see progress as the result of capital accumulation, but if you look historically, progress has always been won through progressive soc...
Tagged under: Degrowth | Capitalism
Natural Capital Report - 2021 — Bunloit
2021-11-12 (or before) in bunloit.comA source of carbon emissions and lichen communities of international importance, our first natural capital report has uncovered some interesting and unexpected conclusions.
Tagged under: Capitalism
The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?
2021-10-31 in The GuardianThe city’s plan to rebuild Manhattan’s East River Park on higher ground has incited a dispute over ‘green gentrification’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rivers | Capitalism
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot
2021-10-30 in The GuardianInstead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
Tagged under: Oceans | Brazil | Capitalism
Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism | George Monbiot
2021-10-06 in The GuardianExploiting people, exploiting land, and keeping its ugly side secret. Its historical effects are all too recognisable in the Pandora papers now, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism
Industrial Policy’s Comeback? - Prime
2021-09-15 in Prime - Policy Research in MacroeconomicsThe answer cannot lie in the sound creation of an “industrial policy,” however ambitious. The globalized, financialized, monopoly capitalism of our day instead requires wholesale structural reform
Tagged under: Capitalism
Is Capitalism Compatible with Environmentalism? | Science Museum
2021-09-01 (or before) in Science MuseumJournalist and broadcaster Jon Snow will chair a panel of experts in economics, policy and climate science to explore how to reconcile boosting profits with stewardship of our planet.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
How Capitalism Torched the Planet by Imploding Into Fascism | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2021-08-21 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoWhy Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not A Problem For Fascists — It Is A Solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
The debate on World Dynamics: A response to Nordhaus - Policy Sciences
2021-07-25 (or before) in Springer VerlagIn a recent paper published in the Economic Journal, Professor William D. Nordhaus of Yale University reviewed World Dynamics by Jay W. Forrester. In his criticism, Nordhaus signals three “serious problems” and several additional “questionable assumptions” of sufficient importance to undermine the usefulness of Forrester's book. However, a careful examination of his analysis shows that each point made by Nordhaus rests on a misunderstanding of World Dynamics, a misuse of empirical data, or an inability to analyze properly the dynamic behavior of the model by static equilibrium methods.The three “ser...
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Excerpt | To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism
2021-07-11 (or before) in YES! MagazineMuch environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
Tagged under: Colonialism | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels
‘Capitalism must die to protect the sacred’
2021-07-11 (or before) in Canadian DimensionIndigenous people are putting their bodies on the line for the benefit of all. They deserve more than empty gestures—they deserve our unconditional and active support. Any reduction in the power of the state to oppress them reduces its power to oppress anyone else. As The Red Deal emphasizes, none of us will be safe until all of us are safe. This book deserves to be widely read, discussed, and built upon.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Global Land Outlook (GLO) | Knowledge Hub
2021-06-04 (or before) in Knowledge Hub | Knowledge HubThe premise of the Global Land Outlook (GLO) is that land, and its associated resources such as soil, water, and biodiversity, comprise a relatively fixed stock of natural capital. The increasing demand for land-based goods and services, and the way they are today produced is adversely impacting human health and the future sustainability of the planet.
Tagged under: Health | Water Resources | Sustainability | Capitalism
There's a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it? - Prospect Magazine
2021-05-24 in Prospect MagazineIn discussions of climate emergency, degrowth has always been the elephant in the room; acknowledged from time to time, but rarely spoken about. But it may be the only solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Capitalism | Geoengineering
Put Brake on Capitalism, Says Popular Marxist Book Author
2021-05-11 in nippon.comOsaka, May 11 (Jiji Press)--Kohei Saito, author of a Marxist book popular in Japan, has called for applying a…
Tagged under: Capitalism | Japan
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
2021-05-01 in Harvard Business ReviewFor two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. But although such reporting has become widespread, and some firms are deriving benefits from it, environmental damage and social inequality are still growing. This article, by Timberland’s former COO, outlines the problems with both sustainability reporting and sustainable investing. The author discusses nonstandard metrics, insufficient auditing, unreliable ESG ratings, and more. But real progress, he says, req...
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing | naked capitalism
2021-04-14 in Naked CapitalismClimate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Tagged under: Carbon Pricing | Capitalism
Home - Planet Tracker
2021-04-06 (or before) in Planet TrackerAligning financial markets with a sustainable future Contact us what we do Planet Tracker is an award-winning non-profit financial think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. Planet Tracker provides insightful, applicable information to financial professionals to assist investment decision-making through data-driven and financially- grounded research which assesses transition pathways for global industry sectors and […]
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Home - Planet Tracker
2021-04-06 (or before) in Planet TrackerAligning financial markets with a sustainable future Contact us what we do Planet Tracker is an award-winning non-profit financial think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. Planet Tracker provides insightful, applicable information to financial professionals to assist investment decision-making through data-driven and financially- grounded research which assesses transition pathways for global industry sectors and […]
Tagged under: Capitalism
Mark Carney Walks Back Brookfield Net-Zero Claim After Criticism
2021-03-05 (or before) in BloombergBy describing Brookfield’s $600 billion portfolio as carbon neutral, a key climate-finance leader provoked a backlash by questioning what ‘net zero’ really means
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Net Zero | Finance | Capitalism
The Big Sustainability Illusion - how a whole crowd of incrementalist ESG progress proponents wants to make us think they support "Sustainability"
2021-03-01 (or before) in LinkedInReform of corporate disclosure on sustainability is highly discussed at this moment; triggered by the illusion that stakeholder capitalism is the new horse to bet on (should that not have happened 20 years ago?), pledges made by several networks advocating for further convergence in the last couple
Tagged under: Capitalism | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Sustainability
Anne Boyer: "The Heavy Air"
2021-02-13 (or before) in yalereview.yale.eduA meditation by Anne Boyer on capitalism and the air we breathe
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism Is Struggling With the Language of Climate Change
2021-02-10 (or before) in BloombergThe technical terminology of science can sometimes be muddled in powerful climate messages from finance and political leaders.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism | Finance
Alberta Inquiry Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists
2021-01-26 (or before) in VICEThe report, paid for by the Alberta government, suggests climate reporters are part of a coordinated ploy by George Soros and other progressive elites to quash capitalism and distribute climate change propaganda.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Biodiversity Risk, Natural Capital and actuarial practice | Blog by Aled Jones et al
2020-12-03 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityA new cross-sector work programme has been launched by CUSP researcher Aled Jones together with the Institute and Faculty of the Actuaries, to take forward a series of activities including think pieces, webinars and external engagement to ensure the proactive engagement of the actuary profession with the importance, perils and impacts of global biodiversity risks. This blog is outlining the agenda.
Tagged under: Finance | Capitalism
Climate Bonds Initiative
2020-11-27 (or before) in Climate Bonds Initiative | Mobilizing debt capital markets for climate change solutionsMobilizing debt capital markets for climate change solutions
Tagged under: Climate Change | Finance | Capitalism
Eight steps to turn the world around - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-11-27 (or before) in London School of EconomicsSean Kidney sets out eight steps to drive change in global capital and channel trillions towards investment in the green, resilient and inclusive economy of the future.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Capitalism
Andreas Malm’s General Formula of Fossil Capital | by ANDREW | Medium
2020-10-18 (or before) by in MediumAndreas Malm’s book Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso 2016) is a history of the steam…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
2020-10-11 (or before) by in Films for ActionThe following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the...
Tagged under: Capitalism | India
Debating Nature's Value | SpringerLink
2020-10-11 (or before) in PalgraveThis edited collection comprehensively discusses the issues raised by the concept of 'Natural Capital', with chapter authors presenting not only arguments for and against the widespread adoption of the idea, but also viewpoints arguing for nuanced, pragmatic and middle-ground positions.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
2020-10-05 (or before) in BloombergInternal projections from one of world’s largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism
Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors
2020-10-01 in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThis briefing uses historical export data and a combination of institutional sources to track how mark-ups on African coffee and cocoa exports have changed relative to European coffee and cocoa re-...
Tagged under: Europe | Capitalism | Africa | Colonialism
Schools in England told not to use material from anti-capitalist groups
2020-09-27 in The GuardianIdea categorised as ‘extreme political stance’ equivalent to endorsing illegal activity
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism is Killing the Earth – An Anarchist Guide to Ecology
2020-09-22 (or before) in Anarchist FederationTagged under: Capitalism
Anthropocene, Emissions Budget, and the Structural Crisis of the Capitalist World-System
2020-08-29 (or before) in jwsr.pitt.eduTagged under: Capitalism
How Individualist Economics Are Causing Planetary Eco-Collapse
2020-08-19 (or before) by Richard Smith in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismWhile capitalism has brought unprecedented development, this same motor of development is now driving towards ecological collapse, threatening to doom us all.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism | Collapse
Richard Smith
2020-08-19 (or before) by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismRichard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Green Capitalism: How Multinationals Use Climate Change to Impose an Industrial Agricultural Model
2020-08-19 (or before) by Translated by Leslie Thatcher in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAdvocates are questioning whether Big Ag's "climate-smart agriculture" will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism
New Report on Unrecorded Capital Flight Finds Developing Countries are Net-Creditors to the Rest of the World
2020-08-18 (or before) in Global Financial IntegrityGlobal Financial Integrity (GFI), the Centre for Applied Research at the Norwegian School of Economics and a team of global experts have released a study showing that since 1980 developing countries lost US$16.3 trillion dollars through broad leakages in the balance of payments, trade misinvoicing, and recorded financial transfers.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped
2020-07-24 in The GuardianTerror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating
Tagged under: Capitalism
Money Capital vs Life Capital: the War of Values We Live or Die By
2020-07-16 in Counter PunchUnder the name of ‘growth’, self-multiplying private money sequences turn all that exists into ever more of their own demand with no life necessity regulating them. We now know a few billionaires own more than the majority of the world. What is not tracked is how they exponentially increase their fortunes by massive pollution and depletion of all that supports life to auto-maximize their profits - from the air and the water to the ice-caps and the biomes of our soil and guts. This is shamefully called ‘the free market’, and ‘overpopulation’ of the poor is still blamed for the results.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Agribusiness drives severe decline of essential insects | Climate & Capitalism
2020-06-10 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusFour million tonnes of poison a year, most produced by four agribusiness giants, are killing essential insects everywhere. One-third of species face extinction.
Tagged under: Capitalism | Insects | Extinction
The Actual Problem With Saying “Human Capital Stock”
2020-05-28 by in Slate MagazineA White House adviser wasn’t invoking slavery—but the phrase has other issues.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Trump Adviser Calls Workers “Human Capital Stock,” Says We Should Get Back to Work
2020-05-26 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismTo them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Rivers | Capitalism
Disobedience, Protest, and the Pandemic: Climate Change and Citizen Action under Conditions of Social Distancing | Blog by Graeme Hayes
2020-05-05 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCivil disobedience is not just a checklist of components, but a tradition of morally purposeful action and an expression of citizenship, CUSP Fellow Graeme Hayes writes. As the pandemic ushers in new social norms, and political and economic interests may seek to capitalise on the crisis to further deepen social inequality, how social movements rethink their tactics may have profound consequences for the effectiveness of future protests.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Capitalism | Activism
Opinion | The Plan Is to Save Capital and Let the People Die
2020-04-28 (or before) in Common DreamsWhether Americans know it or not, their government is not working for them. Their government is working on behalf of capital. Humans are now a mere second-order, instrumental factor to be considered based on how it affects capital.
Tagged under: Capitalism
The New Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
2020-01-24 (or before) in YouTubeFor the last five years, Alex Epstein's 2014 New York Times bestseller, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, has been one of the most important books in the worl...
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Capitalism | Fossil Fuels
Larry Fink's Annual 2022 Letter to CEOs | BlackRock
2020-01-20 (or before) in Investment Management & Financial Services | BlackRockIn his annual 2022 letter to CEO's, BlackRock's Larry Fink discusses how effective stakeholder capitalism creates and sustains value for shareholders. Read more.
Tagged under: Capitalism
350.org Radicals Behind the “Stop the Money Pipeline” Campaign
2020-01-16 (or before) in Capital Research Center“Stop the Money Pipeline,” a radical new campaign targeting companies that lend to the oil and gas industry, is a front for the uncompromising leftists at 350.org.
Tagged under: Capitalism
A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change
2020-01-10 (or before) in Verso BooksCapitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the 'right direction'. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism | Activism
The solution to the global crisis of capitalism is simplicity itself | by tedtrainertsw | INSURGE intelligence | Medium
2019-12-09 (or before) in MediumToward the post-capitalist revolution
Tagged under: Capitalism
Tackling the political economy of transformative change | Blog by Daniel Hausknost
2019-11-21 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityFor Joseph Schumpeter, ‘creative destruction’ was an inherent feature of Capitalist development; what if we apply its logic to transformative political change instead? We have plenty of solutions at hand, Daniel Hausknost argues; it's time for decisions.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
Exxon’s Credit Rating Outlook Lowered by Moody’s on Cash Burn
2019-11-20 (or before) in BloombergExxon Mobil Corp. had the outlook on its top-notch debt rating lowered by Moody’s Investors Service Inc. to negative due to a “substantial” cash burn to fund growth.
Tagged under: Exxon | Finance | Capitalism
Meet catabolic capitalism: globalization’s gruesome twin – Uneven Earth
2019-11-11 (or before) in Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the politicalTagged under: Capitalism
The US city preparing itself for the collapse of capitalism
2019-10-31 in The GuardianFrom a festival that helps artists trade work for healthcare to a regional micro-currency, Kingston is trying to build an inclusive and self-sufficient local ecosystem
Tagged under: Capitalism | Health | Collapse
It’s time to add global justice to XR’s demands
2019-10-24 (or before) in Red PepperExtinction Rebellion must recognise the impacts of colonialism and capitalism, and demand a just transition for all, argues Aranyo Aarjan
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Colonialism | Capitalism
Join us at ENDGAMES
2019-10-17 by in rs21 | revolutionary socialism in the 21st centuryOn 26 October, rs21 is hosting Endgames? Capitalism and the Climate Emergency.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Bank of England boss says global finance is funding 4C temperature rise
2019-10-15 in The GuardianMark Carney says capital markets are financing projects likely to fuel a catastrophic rise in global heating
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Economics | Finance | Capitalism
Why the fight against climate change will never be won with capitalism
2019-08-24 (or before) by in Eco-Business.com - Asia Pacific's Sustainable Business CommunityOur current socio-economic system relies on the exploitation of both people and planet. In saving a world on the brink of ecological and social disaster, calls for a greener, more efficient...
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Capitalism
Verso
2019-07-15 (or before) in Verso BooksVerso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
Tagged under: Capitalism
U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy
2019-06-03 (or before) by in The Heritage FoundationWhat will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism — the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.”
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics | Capitalism
Banks are financing climate chaos
2019-06-02 (or before) in Fossil Banks No Thanks!The Fossil Banks No Thanks platform brings together organisations and campaigns from all over the world pressuring banks to stop financing the fossil fuel industry.
Tagged under: Disinvestment | Fossil Capitalism | Fossil Fuels | Banking | Capitalism
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’
2019-05-10 in The GuardianThe octogenarian entrepreneur, who prefers gardening to meetings, says capitalism is destroying earth
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it | George Monbiot
2019-04-25 in The GuardianThe economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism | US Politics
Capitalism is destroying the Earth. We need a new human right for future generations | George Monbiot
2019-03-15 in The GuardianThe children on climate strike are right: their lives should not be sacrificed to satisfy our greed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Capitalism | Women and Children | Children | Activism
Home - Carbon Tracker Initiative
2019-03-01 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeAligning capital market actions with climate reality Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that...
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife populations, not ‘humanity’
2018-11-01 by in The ConversationThe WWF’s report avoids the C-word – here’s why that matters.
Tagged under: Wildlife | Capitalism
Which financial architecture can protect environmental commons? | Article by Nick Molho and Tim Jackson
2018-10-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityThe discourse around ‘natural capital’ potentially offers a way to integrate decisions about the commons effectively into economic decisions. Investing in the commons is key to protecting the flow of services provided to society by natural capital. Recent exploration of the potential for investing in natural infrastructure has highlighted numerous mechanisms, which could help turn this proposition into a reality.
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it | George Monbiot
2018-05-15 in The GuardianDefining Earth’s resources as ‘natural capital’ is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Wildlife | Capitalism
Failing to put a value on nature condemns it
2015-11-23 in The GuardianPlacing an economic value on ‘natural capital’ forces companies to conserve nature rather than destroy it
Tagged under: Economics | Renewable Energy | Wildlife | Capitalism
How ecologism is the true heir of both socialism and conservatism
2013-07-22 in LSE Blogs | Expert analysis & debate from LSERupert Read argues that being concerned about the environment is consistent with both socialism and conservatism. True conservatism is not adherent to capitalism and associated with the wealthy eli…
Tagged under: Capitalism
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
2013-05-14 in Critical Legal ThinkingBy Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek - The Left must accelerate towards global post-capitalism or risk planetary catastrophe.
Tagged under: Capitalism
None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
2013-04-17 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.
Tagged under: Capitalism
Capitalism vs. the Climate
2011-11-09 in The NationDenialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
Tagged under: Drought | Capitalism
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out - William E. Rees, 1992
1992-10-01 in Sage JournalsEcological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out uses the concepts of human carrying capacity and natural capital to de...
Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism
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