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The Problem with Green Capitalism

It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only problem we’re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy source, we can’t forget that the technology and minerals behind this green transition need to come from somewhere — and that somewhere is primarily countries in the Global South.

The supply chains which carry the lithium, copper, cobalt, and other minerals essential for renewable technology from the peripheries to the imperial cores — from places like Chile and Bolivia to places like the United States and Europe — are built upon a foundation of colonialism, imperialism, hyper-exploitation, and ecocide: all essential components of our current economic system — capitalism.

In part one of this two-part series on the green transition, Upstream explores what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?

In part two they will dive deeper into some solutions, but in this episode, Upstream starts their journey in the Atacama desert of Chile and ends all the way in the Arctic Circle, exploring the global extractive machine and the communities that exist on its frontiers.

You can listen to the full Upstream Documentary below to dive deeper into this topic.

Featured guests:

Max Ajl — Associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, author of A People’s Green New Deal
Ana Julia Aneise — Youth climate activist with Youth for Climate
Sergio Chaparro — Colombian human rights activist and researcher.
Jason Hickel — Economic anthropologist and author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Beaska Niillas — Northern Sámi traditional handicrafter, hunter and gatherer, activist, Sámi school kindergarten teacher, politician, and the host of the SuperSápmi Podcast
Thea Riofrancos — Associate professor of political science at Providence College and co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
Matthias Schmelzer — Economic historian at the University of Vienna and co-author of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

A full transcript of the episode is available for your viewing pleasure here.

27 Comments on "The Problem with Green Capitalism"

Theedrich on Sat, 1st Oct 2022 8:53 am

The USS Kearsarge destroyed the NS pipeline. See « The War On Germany Just Entered Its Hot Phase | Main | Open (NOT Ukraine) Thread 2022-159 », partly republished at Whodunnit? — Facts related to the sabotage attack on the Nord Stream pipelines

ABC News @ABC—9:59pm • 7 Feb 2022 Pres. Biden: “If Russia invades…then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Reporter: “But how will you do that, exactly, since…the project is in Germany’s control?”
Biden: “I promise you, we will be able to do that.”
abcn.ws/3B5SScx

professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman—15:51 UTC • Sep 27, 2022 In 2015, the annual routine underwater survey of the Nord Stream 1 pipelines came across a remote operated vehicle rigged with explosives right next to one of the lines in Swedish waters. The umbilical cable had been cut. The drone’s national origin was never disclosed.

An expeditionary detachment of U.S. Navy ships led by the universal amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge days ago was in the Baltic Sea

It was 30 km from the site of the alleged sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline and 50 km from the threads of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline

AZ @AZmilitary1—14:12 UTC • Sep 27, 2022

On September 2, interesting maneuvers performed by an American helicopter with the call sign FFAB123. Then it was assumed that this board was from the USS Kearsarge air wing, and today more details were looked. According to the website ads-b.nl, this call sign was used by 6 boards that day, of which we managed to establish the side numbers of three. All of them are Sikorsky MH-60S.

By superimposing the FFAB123 route on the scheme of yesterday’s accident, we get a rather interesting result — the helicopter either flew along the Nord Stream-2 highway, or even between the points where the accident occurred.

For more on Poland’s involvement, likely in cooperation with the U.S., read these informed speculations by John Helmer:

The explosions at Bornholm are the new Polish strike for war in Europe against Chancellor Olaf Scholz. So far the Chancellery in Berlin is silent, tellingly.

In other words, the American strategy is to kill Germany.

Dredd on Sat, 1st Oct 2022 9:16 am

“admit that the waters around you have grown” – Dylan (The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964)

Seaports With Sea Level Change – 26

makati1 on Sat, 1st Oct 2022 5:05 pm

There is no “Green Capitalism” just theft and corruption to make the rich richer and the serfs poorer. The carbon bullshit is just that, bullshit. If you can buy your way out of the restrictions, they are not restrictions, just a transfer of wealth up to the top.

makati1 on Sat, 1st Oct 2022 5:08 pm

“In other words, the American strategy is to kill Germany.”

Becoming quite obvious to the few of us who can think outside the USMSM Gulag, Theedrich.

Absolutely! The “empire” is trying to eliminate all competition to their failing system of theft and murder.

The Nationalist on Sun, 2nd Oct 2022 10:29 am

With friends like Biden, (The Cunt), who needs enemies?

Biden's hairplug on Mon, 3rd Oct 2022 8:44 am

Why white people are better off in Europe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyg-61NUI5Q

There is enough white “Lebensraum” between Lisbon and Vladivostok.

Anglos take note.

Hello on Mon, 3rd Oct 2022 9:22 am

>>> Why white people are better off in Europe

what are you talking about Clog?
I have to share bus an train with negros every day. It can’t get more humiliating than that. A zoo train. Europe has become that bad.

And Vlad is busy killing off a good chunk of whites creating a vacuum and plenty of lebensraum for high performance negro/raghead breeders.

There’s only 2 things that can save europe:
1. a brutal economic collapse making natives wonder why they should be feeding imports
2. a baby boom creating outward population pressure, starting a new age of colonization

None of those 2 things are on the horizon.

makati1 on Mon, 3rd Oct 2022 4:10 pm

Capitalism has been taken over by little boys sitting at their keyboard trying to get rich without working or actually producing anything. Time for capitalism to die along with the fools playing the market casino. 1929 anyone?

I think their rude awakening is in progress. DOW <10,000 by 2023? So be it.

Dredd on Tue, 4th Oct 2022 5:32 am

Race science (Small Brains Considered – 8)

FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 6th Oct 2022 12:56 pm

Sydney on track for record annual rainfall of 2.2 metres as eastern states brace for flooding

“ Sydney is on track to set a new record for its wettest ever year, with more than two months still to go, as the city braces for another 100mm of rain over the next few days.

“The soggy city has recorded 2,129mm of rain between 1 January and 4 October – just 65mm shy of the record set in 1950, when the annual total reached 2,194mm…

“The 2022 rain total for Sydney’s Observatory Hill weather station has already overtaken the second wettest year on record in 1860, which recorded 2,110mm.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/sydneys-wettest-year-expected-as-inland-nsw-central-qld-and-parts-of-victoria-brace-for-flooding

For the primitives, 2.2 meters is just over 7 feet.

FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 6th Oct 2022 1:00 pm

“Today 4th October SE China lived another blistering hot day with up to 40.5C in Shangrao [so, after never having reached 40C in October, China has now achieved this on four consecutive days].

“Three provinces: Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian set a new record heat for October. Dozens of records fell. Yesterday Chibi had a min. temperature of 30.3C [86.5F], the highest ever in China in October.”

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1577282388324917252

FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 6th Oct 2022 1:03 pm

As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, a Water Crisis Looms in South Asia

Warmer air is thinning most of the vast mountain range’s glaciers, known as the Third Pole because they contain so much ice. The melting could have far-reaching consequences for flood risk and for water security for a billion people who rely on meltwater for their survival.

“Unpredictable changes in the timing of snowmelt, which supplies water for irrigation, have led some farmers to abandon their fields.”

https://e360.yale.edu/features/himalayas-glaciers-climate-change

FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 6th Oct 2022 1:05 pm

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“Non-stop record heat in Japan. Besides over 100 records of max. temperatures, the past days had many records of highest minimums (first 2 tables).

“Today 4 October 16 more records of monthly highest temperatures were broken with up to 33.4C. (3rd table). Tables by JMA.”

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1577267298812932098

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