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Documentary #14: The Green Transition Pt. 1 – The Problem with Green Capitalism

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Decarbonizing a Growing Economy Is More Difficult Than Decarbonize a Stency Economy, Right?

The idea that we can have perpetually increasing renewable energy is a very dangerous one. The ceaseless expansionary imperative of capitalism, whether green or not, fundamentally relies on the destruction and exploitation of the global south. People will often say that 1.5 degrees is dead. It's impossible to decarbonize that fast. But that is only true if we assume that high-income nations should keep growing their economies. If you abandon growth as an objective and additionally scale down less necessary forms of production to reduce energy use, then you can decarbonize more quickly.

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