The Importance of Growth in Capitalism

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Many people moralize capitalism as either a savior of the world or the root of all our problems. What is your stance on this and given energy depletion and climate and ocean risk, do you see capitalism as having a place in future societies? Well, I need that we need to go to the next step. We have run with the inputs because we cannot keep the pace, the rhythm and the width inputs are entering the system. And something that should have been obvious from several decades now, but now it gets impossible to avoid it is that we cannot go through everything in the planet. But maybe this is going to be good for us, even if it's harder right now. We'll see

On this episode, physicist Antonio Turiel joins me for a wide-ranging discussion from oceans and climate to energy and culture. Oceans are one of the most important factors regulating the Earth’s climate, and yet they receive relatively little attention from the climate community. There are numerous critical risk factors to unpack regarding just the oceans alone - and still so much that we don’t know. This conversation also delves into the complexity of an economic system requiring continuous growth itself embedded in an Earth system that is already hitting its limits. What are the boundaries of our energy systems and what options do we have - and not have - for the future? Is the root of the critical issue we’re facing - not a technical problem - but a cultural problem?

About Antonio Turiel:

Antonio Turiel Martínez is a scientist and activist with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He works as a senior scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the CSIC specializing in remote sensing, turbulence, sea surface salinity, water cycle, sea surface temperature, sea surface currents, and chlorophyll concentration. He has written more than 80 scientific articles, but he is better known as an online activist and editor of The Oil Crash blog, where he addresses sensitive issues about the depletion of conventional fossil fuel resources, such as the peak of oil and its possible implications on a world scale.

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