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Love this vid. Perfect amount of information within an easily watchable timeframe. Editing excellent as well really pulling all the information together in a digestible way.
Wow! Looks like you're still doing great things. Really glad you went in this direction with your channel. You're talking about really important topics.
Finally a video addressing the elephant in the room. Yet, THE GREEN NEW DEAL, addressed in this video as a solution deserves some attention. In her article "Capitalism And The Green Agenda: A Green New Deal Or Green Neo-Colonialism?", social and political researcher Amy Knox warns: "When compared to Western notions of conscious consumerism, corporate sustainability targets, carbon taxes, and even climate change denialism, the Green New Deal undoubtedly presents a progressive turning point in a political conversation that has been dominated by the belief that climate change can be solved by placing limits on an otherwise rational economic system. A GND, however, will not meet any definition of climate justice if it does not place at its centre a postcolonial and Indigenous worldview. Postcolonial critics argue that while versions of the GND differ in detail, they share one important feature: a tendency to ignore both the global nature of the climate crisis and the colonial history from which it has fundamentally emerged. While there are obvious scientific flaws in limiting the solution to climate change to one country in a global capitalist world, the more problematic notion underpinning this policy is that it ultimately prioritises the survival and security of those living within the Western borders of its origin. It bears repeating that the United States and the 28 countries of the European Union are historically the biggest contributors to the climate crisis through colonial and imperial expansion, together contributing 47% of historical carbon emissions. - Put differently, the GND makes few efforts to address the colonial roots of the climate crisis by centring the emancipation of once-colonised peoples, despite the fact that the impact of the climate crisis and ecological destruction is experienced most acutely by nations in the Global South, compounding the existing Western dominance produced by the neo-colonial global capitalist order. - Furthermore, the GND and its proponents self-appoint the US and European state leaders as spearheading the international anti-capitalist fight against climate change, despite most anti-imperial and post-independence struggles in the Global South existing as struggles against capitalism and the ecological injustices it produces. Thus, through such whitewashing of historical anti-colonial struggles, and through omitting any inclusion of Indigenous voices in its formulation, the GND reinforces the dominance of white and Western-centric thought over the Indigenous worldview. - Finally, the solutions proposed by the GND itself are critiqued on account of relying upon the resources and labour of countries in the Global South to meet the heavy burdens of material (rare metals for ex) and energy requirements necessary for such a transition. The GND thus becomes the next chapter in a long and entrenched history of racialised capitalism, resource extraction, and the dispossession and displacement of native communities, wherein the Global South continues to shoulder the cost of Western “progress” and the cost of emancipating the white working class in these nations. To the extent that the GND does not fundamentally challenge the neo-colonial role of the West in the global political order, it is unlikely to produce the transformational and systemic change necessary to reverse the climate crisis. To truly address the climate crisis and the inherent contradiction between capitalism and the green agenda, Western environmentalists must advocate for a global version of the GND-one that disrupts the global capitalist order of Western domination and centres itself on the emancipation of the most marginalised from colonial legacies and the neo-colonialism of the present. The green agenda cannot be bound within the borders of the Global North, nor can it prioritise social and economic justice for Westerners over the most at-risk Indigenous communities in the rest of the world. However, this requires Westerners to enter the climate space not as self-appointed leaders, but as “figures of solidarity”. Privileging the worldview and voices of Indigenous communities is essential in decolonising the green agenda and countering the global capitalist logic of accumulation and commodification. The Indigenous communities who maintain their existence without exploiting their land or resources should thus be the “standard conception” of a green agenda that claims to have the transformative potential to reverse the climate crisis."
I honestly think that the way forward is to adopt a more planned and democratic economic system, rather than a market-based capitalist economic system. By putting economic decisions into the hands of communities themselves, on local, regional, and national levels, we'd be in a much better position to tackle the climate crisis. Keeping economic decision making in the hands of an undemocratic minority, who's main goal is to make a profit, isn't going to see us through the problem. We need a democratic and accountable economy.
The problem is there is no incentives under capitalism because being “clean” cost more, which in turn loses profits for share holders. The only way to solve this issue is through collectivism. Capitalist methods will only prioritize the rich, and not everyone.
The problem is that we aren't living in a true free market capitalist society. the state is the biggest problem because it has no Insintive to help the people since the government can just take people's money with out consent (ie taxation), in a true free market society, business would need to provide the best services at the lowest cost, if the market (is the people) want a more eco freindly world, business would follow to get the market desire. The government use SO MUCH of our resources on war equipment that drives violence across the whole world. If we want to live in a better society , we need to recognize that the state is part of the problem not the solution. And yes I'm an AnCap
LOVE THIS!!!! CAPITALISM NEEDS TO CHANGE SO THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE/TRANSITION CAN HAPPEN GLOBALLY, A CHANGE NOT GLOBAL IN ALL DEMOCRACIES BUT YET THAT WILL IMPACT ALL THE WORLD.
The best world possible is only possible when individuals have freedom and can decide what to do with their own resources, unencumbered of elected bearcats and ideology.
Parts of the world tried communism back in the days: only North-Korea sticks to it to this day, and that sure says alot about the alternatives to capitalism
communism and capitalism are extreme points of a very wide spectrum... currently there already exist varieties of capitalism across world wide economic systems... capitalism is like a fire that can create comfort and wealth for a society but if it gets out of hand it might burn down the whole forest.. we have to set boundaries by adressing the fact that all sort of materialistic consumption is draining the planets' ressources. we should start to celebrate people for being resource efficient instead of celebrating influencers who brag with their wasteful lifestyles.. this incentivizes the wrong behavior.. its wrong to think that people would only create progress and wealth if it leads them to increased consumption... this is just a neoliberal interpretation of human beings that is currently omnipresent in our global society... in fact, what people admire is the positive feedback by society.. as social individuals they seek recognition from other humans...and in the current world you get too much positive feedback by consuming and wasting resources. we as humans seek for growth and development but this does not necessarily imply that our houses have to become bigger and our cars have to become faster all the time, instead we could grow into diversity... by widening the scope of economic productivity as the sole scale to measure welfare..
I’m from Belarus. If you are from the USSR you would agree it was never actually communism. It was mostly socialist but still had many aspects of capitalism. The problem is there is no incentives under capitalism because being “clean” cost more, which in turn loses profits for share holders. The only way to solve this issue is through collectivism. Capitalist methods will only prioritize the rich, and not everyone.
@@DarkJonas33 If you write "capitalism", you automatically oppose something to it. And either you are suggesting something else, "socialism", for example, or why use this word in the title?
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Love this vid. Perfect amount of information within an easily watchable timeframe. Editing excellent as well really pulling all the information together in a digestible way.
Hey Alex, thanks for your feedback. That means a lot to hear! 🙏
So stoked about these new global system propositions!
This isn’t talked about enough when confronting the climate crisis. Kudos.
Wow! Looks like you're still doing great things. Really glad you went in this direction with your channel. You're talking about really important topics.
This needs way more views!
Finally a video addressing the elephant in the room. Yet, THE GREEN NEW DEAL, addressed in this video as a solution deserves some attention. In her article "Capitalism And The Green Agenda: A Green New Deal Or Green Neo-Colonialism?", social and political researcher Amy Knox warns:
"When compared to Western notions of conscious consumerism, corporate sustainability targets, carbon taxes, and even climate change denialism, the Green New Deal undoubtedly presents a progressive turning point in a political conversation that has been dominated by the belief that climate change can be solved by placing limits on an otherwise rational economic system.
A GND, however, will not meet any definition of climate justice if it does not place at its centre a postcolonial and Indigenous worldview. Postcolonial critics argue that while versions of the GND differ in detail, they share one important feature: a tendency to ignore both the global nature of the climate crisis and the colonial history from which it has fundamentally emerged. While there are obvious scientific flaws in limiting the solution to climate change to one country in a global capitalist world, the more problematic notion underpinning this policy is that it ultimately prioritises the survival and security of those living within the Western borders of its origin.
It bears repeating that the United States and the 28 countries of the European Union are historically the biggest contributors to the climate crisis through colonial and imperial expansion, together contributing 47% of historical carbon emissions.
- Put differently, the GND makes few efforts to address the colonial roots of the climate crisis by centring the emancipation of once-colonised peoples, despite the fact that the impact of the climate crisis and ecological destruction is experienced most acutely by nations in the Global South, compounding the existing Western dominance produced by the neo-colonial global capitalist order.
- Furthermore, the GND and its proponents self-appoint the US and European state leaders as spearheading the international anti-capitalist fight against climate change, despite most anti-imperial and post-independence struggles in the Global South existing as struggles against capitalism and the ecological injustices it produces. Thus, through such whitewashing of historical anti-colonial struggles, and through omitting any inclusion of Indigenous voices in its formulation, the GND reinforces the dominance of white and Western-centric thought over the Indigenous worldview.
- Finally, the solutions proposed by the GND itself are critiqued on account of relying upon the resources and labour of countries in the Global South to meet the heavy burdens of material (rare metals for ex) and energy requirements necessary for such a transition. The GND thus becomes the next chapter in a long and entrenched history of racialised capitalism, resource extraction, and the dispossession and displacement of native communities, wherein the Global South continues to shoulder the cost of Western “progress” and the cost of emancipating the white working class in these nations.
To the extent that the GND does not fundamentally challenge the neo-colonial role of the West in the global political order, it is unlikely to produce the transformational and systemic change necessary to reverse the climate crisis.
To truly address the climate crisis and the inherent contradiction between capitalism and the green agenda, Western environmentalists must advocate for a global version of the GND-one that disrupts the global capitalist order of Western domination and centres itself on the emancipation of the most marginalised from colonial legacies and the neo-colonialism of the present. The green agenda cannot be bound within the borders of the Global North, nor can it prioritise social and economic justice for Westerners over the most at-risk Indigenous communities in the rest of the world.
However, this requires Westerners to enter the climate space not as self-appointed leaders, but as “figures of solidarity”. Privileging the worldview and voices of Indigenous communities is essential in decolonising the green agenda and countering the global capitalist logic of accumulation and commodification. The Indigenous communities who maintain their existence without exploiting their land or resources should thus be the “standard conception” of a green agenda that claims to have the transformative potential to reverse the climate crisis."
Love the video! Although I did get an advert for virgin atlatnic flights half way through. IRONIC lol
I honestly think that the way forward is to adopt a more planned and democratic economic system, rather than a market-based capitalist economic system. By putting economic decisions into the hands of communities themselves, on local, regional, and national levels, we'd be in a much better position to tackle the climate crisis. Keeping economic decision making in the hands of an undemocratic minority, who's main goal is to make a profit, isn't going to see us through the problem. We need a democratic and accountable economy.
The kind of storytelling that reaches the public discourse 🙏🏻
The problem is there is no incentives under capitalism because being “clean” cost more, which in turn loses profits for share holders.
The only way to solve this issue is through collectivism. Capitalist methods will only prioritize the rich, and not everyone.
Is that the word people use for communism now or something
@@naberville3305 le collectivisme
Inequality is a feature of freedom, not a problem with freedom
Real freedom only happens with egality
The problem is that we aren't living in a true free market capitalist society. the state is the biggest problem because it has no Insintive to help the people since the government can just take people's money with out consent (ie taxation), in a true free market society, business would need to provide the best services at the lowest cost, if the market (is the people) want a more eco freindly world, business would follow to get the market desire.
The government use SO MUCH of our resources on war equipment that drives violence across the whole world.
If we want to live in a better society , we need to recognize that the state is part of the problem not the solution.
And yes I'm an AnCap
LOVE THIS!!!! CAPITALISM NEEDS TO CHANGE SO THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE/TRANSITION CAN HAPPEN GLOBALLY, A CHANGE NOT GLOBAL IN ALL DEMOCRACIES BUT YET THAT WILL IMPACT ALL THE WORLD.
if you think capitalism can meaningfully change then you don't understand capitalism
Fantastic vid to keep people open and positive to the big ideas of systemic change
love how this video demonstrates so logically why our current form of capitalism can’t succeed and gives examples of how we have to evolve it !
The best world possible is only possible when individuals have freedom and can decide what to do with their own resources, unencumbered of elected bearcats and ideology.
What about socialism?
we do need to TAX all forms of pollution!
Very efficiently breaks down the relationship between capitalism and it's inherent problems for mankind!
Doughnut Economy 💯🙌
No, next question.
I miss you Jack ☺
Parts of the world tried communism back in the days: only North-Korea sticks to it to this day, and that sure says alot about the alternatives to capitalism
communism and capitalism are extreme points of a very wide spectrum... currently there already exist varieties of capitalism across world wide economic systems... capitalism is like a fire that can create comfort and wealth for a society but if it gets out of hand it might burn down the whole forest.. we have to set boundaries by adressing the fact that all sort of materialistic consumption is draining the planets' ressources. we should start to celebrate people for being resource efficient instead of celebrating influencers who brag with their wasteful lifestyles.. this incentivizes the wrong behavior.. its wrong to think that people would only create progress and wealth if it leads them to increased consumption... this is just a neoliberal interpretation of human beings that is currently omnipresent in our global society... in fact, what people admire is the positive feedback by society.. as social individuals they seek recognition from other humans...and in the current world you get too much positive feedback by consuming and wasting resources. we as humans seek for growth and development but this does not necessarily imply that our houses have to become bigger and our cars have to become faster all the time, instead we could grow into diversity... by widening the scope of economic productivity as the sole scale to measure welfare..
USSR and China are examples of failed STATE CAPITALIST countries. No communist country has ever existed.
Also, Vietnam and Cuba are "Communist" too.
If you wish to know more, search for: Why the state is counter revolutionary parts 1-4 (channel: Anark)
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the new economic system you are looking for is called socialism
Bullshit
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Francis Bacon
No it cant. Human well-being isnt profitable under capitalism.
The entire western world embraces capitalism. The west represents the most successful societies this planet has ever seen.
Human wellbeing has flourished because of capitalism
As someone who born in the USSR, I know for sure that socialism/communism does not solve environmental problems.
Indeed, but too many people associate degrowth and communism, which is totally false.
I’m from Belarus. If you are from the USSR you would agree it was never actually communism. It was mostly socialist but still had many aspects of capitalism.
The problem is there is no incentives under capitalism because being “clean” cost more, which in turn loses profits for share holders.
The only way to solve this issue is through collectivism. Capitalist methods will only prioritize the rich, and not everyone.
@@danielgrinevich8503 " you would agree it was never actually communism. " yep
"The only way to solve this issue is through collectivism." nope :)
Yeah, but what does that have to do with this video?
@@DarkJonas33 If you write "capitalism", you automatically oppose something to it. And either you are suggesting something else, "socialism", for example, or why use this word in the title?
Capitalism for me; Communism for you!!!
What? You want capitalism? Sure, move to USSR or Maoist China or DPRK or Vietnam or Cuba. I'll happily take real Communism.
No
No? Why?
we need communism
There is no climate crisis.
you can choose to keep your head under water. just don't drag others down with you.
You are free to live in a cave licking lichen off rocks but don’t force your lifestyle on others.
What are you talking about? You're the one on this channel, watching this video and commenting on it.
Dear deejay
The Exon Shareholder Committee has deemed your comment beneficial to the company profits.
As a result, The Exon Shareholder Committee has increased your wage by 55 sents per month.
You are expected to increase climate denialism comments by 33% over the next 30 days.
Failure to achieve this goal in the next 30 days is punishable by a wage cut of 15% every week until the goal has been achieved.
Glory to Capitalism!
No