#Green Capitalism

[left-reminders]

#comité invisible #green capitalism #anti capitalism #ecosocialism #halloween

[probablyasocialecologist]

While specifically capitalist ecological crises emerge via politico-economic costs incurred through biophysical exhaustion, the key struggles revolve around whether and how the state (broadly conceived) recognizes and defines the scope of the crisis and is compelled (or not) to marshal powers of regulatory, financial, or technological crisis management. Climate change is the leading front of the emergent second contradiction, and the central management strategy advanced thus far is “green capitalism.” While this emergent capitalist formation is possible, the necessary transitions will take several decades as well as several decades to prove climatically effective, all the while necessitating active coordination on the part of finance capital and highly regulative states investing tens of trillions of dollars. Thus a central variable thus determining this strategy’s effectuality is time: Can it prove effective faster than the climate change comes to threaten capitalist (re)production?

Kevin Surprise, Gramsci in the Stratosphere: Solar Geoengineering and Capitalist Hegemony

#geoengineering #capitalism #green capitalism

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Gary Wilson

Canada is now mostly tree plantations and “managed forest,” which is more like a mono-crop farm than a forest, and much more prone to catastrophic burns. Clearcut logging and mono-crop replanting make wildfires worse.

#wildfires #capitalism #forests #green capitalism #carbon offset #logging #mono-crop #pollution #climate crisis #Canada #struggle la lucha

[callese]

#capitalist system #capitalism kills #life under climate change #electric vehicles #electric vehicles are not the answer #man made global warming #human caused climate change #green capitalism

[feckcops]

‘Green colonialism’: Indigenous world leaders warn over west’s climate strategy

“As countries scramble to uphold pledges to keep global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels by 2030, big business and government are latching on to environmentally driven projects such as mineral needs or wind power that are usurping the rights of Indigenous peoples – from the American south-west to the Arctic and the Serengeti in Africa.

“Brian Mason, chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian reservation in Nevada said that the 70 or so lithium mining applications targeting Paiute lands have come without free, prior and informed consent – what is considered the cornerstone of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He described the lithium extraction efforts as being on a ‘fast track’ to supply the Biden administration’s net-zero strategy to create a domestic supply of EVs. ‘It’s kinda just being rammed down our throats,’ he said. ‘At the cost of Indigenous peoples once again.’

“During a special panel discussion, Edward Parokwa, executive director of the Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (Pingo’s Forum), said a mass migration has ensued of thousands of Maasai violently displaced from their Tanzania homelands to make way for a luxury game reserve – and under suspicions and fear of mobile phone surveillance by the United Arab Emirates. A UAE-based company is believed to be behind the big game hunting operation. ‘And it’s happening in the name of conservation,’ Parokwa said.”

#indigineous people #indiginous land #indigenous rights #indiginous #green colonialism #colonialism #extractivism #green capitalism #capitalism #joe biden #biden #usa #united nations #un #climate crisis #climate breakdown #climate change #climate #social justice #politics

[asg-stuff]

In The Value of a Whale, author Adrienne Buller argues forcefully against market-based “solutions” to the climate crisis. She thinks we can do better. (via Is ‘Green Capitalism’ Total BS? | Wired) 

See also Reliance on hi-tech solutions to climate crisis perpetuates racism, says UN official

#Adrienne Buller #nonfiction #book #The Value of a Whale #green issues #capitalism #green capitalism #climate crisis #economics #Tendayi Achiume

[tikkunolamresistance]

— via The Slow Factory on Instagram !

#green colonialism #palestine #free palestine #anti imperialism #anti capitalism #resources #the slow factory

[nando161mando]

🇩🇪 #Germany: The Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg state was shut down today after the militant leftist “Volcano Group” sabotaged the facility’s electric supply. The group claimed they were targeting Tesla’s “green capitalism” policies, and called Elon Musk a “techno-fascist”. Tesla facilities have been targeted in Brandenburg state in the past, with another power supply site targeted in an arson attack in May of 2021.

#germany #teslamotors #teslamodely #girl killed in horror smash between tesla and vauxhall in quiet village near top gear track in surrey as driver arrested #tesla #gigafactory #brandenburg #antifa #volcano group #sabotage #green capitalism #elon musk #technofascist #anti elon musk #elongated muskrat #elon twitter #europe #fuck elon #elongated man #elon mask #elon musty #elonmusk #musk #elon go fuck yourself #boycott elon musk #jerktrillionaires #jerkbillionaires #jerkmillionaires #class war #direct action

[debaprasad]

Obituary of M. S. Swaminathan: The Proliferation of Death Industry

Obituary of M. S. Swaminathan: The Proliferation of Death Industry

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#Glonal_Heating #Climate Change #Green Capitalism #M. S. Swaminathan #Traditional Farming

[softer-ua]

So I’ve been joking for a while about how Inko manages to afford all of Izuku’s AM merch

But I decided to nerd out and look closer, and I’m pretty sure the only expensive piece Izuku owns is the poster he got from Sir

You might think his dorm looks absolutely stacked

but that’s only because it’s a very small room and he brought every piece he owns

If you look in his old room it’s all the same posters

so he’s owned it all for at least a few years, he’s been working up to this for god knows how many years, just to be the proud owner of 5 posters so basic even he would put tape on them

All of his figures are less than 50$

One of which he’s had since he was a child

And it doesn’t look like the other unidentified figures are anything special either(except maybe AM in his yellow suit)

Izuku only has generic fanboy shit, like maybe one of the posters is a custom but I honestly I don’t think he owns a single special anything

The dead guy poster is 100% the coolest thing he has, no wonder he’s so reverent about it 💀

As for fits this is all we’ve really seen is

So yeah Inko isn’t dropping stacks on merch, I’m pretty sure those sweaters were a 2 for 1 deal because they’re almost identical 💀

#the Midoriya’s have green everywhere but their bank 🙃 #he probably got all his merch at Walmart #starting a gofundme for Izuku so he can get better merch #AM is the most popular hero in their world like he has international appeal so you know his stuff is a dime a dozen #my hero academia #mha #bnha #boku no hero #deku #izuku midoriya #all might #toshinori yagi #inko midoriya #if there’s one thing I know it’s that if there’s a demand for something in both Japan and America #then you can’t throw a rock without hitting that things merch #if you create something that gets popular in both countries you get sent a lil metal that says ‘’You won capitalism!’’

[probablyasocialecologist]

Yet the extraordinary investments needed to combat climate change suggest that there should be no shortage of opportunities for climate-conscious investors. Unfortunately, the complete mismatch of where global capitalism's trillions of investable wealth ends up (unproductive but lucrative housing markets, risky third-world corporate debt, safe first-world public debt, or simply stashed away in tropical island tax havens) and where it should (clean energy, green infrastructure, social investments) is possibly the most serious indication of how modern capitalism is unfit for the challenge of climate change, or any challenge that requires prioritizing environmental and social needs rather than treating them as consequential to interest rates being in equilibrium with the profit motive of each individual firm.

Rodrigo Aguilera, The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

#The Glass Half-Empty #climate change #capitalism #Green Capitalism

[politijohn]

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#eat the rich #capitalism #current events #news #climate change #greenland #environment #world news #environmentalism #green new deal #climate justice

[alanshemper]

Google makes millions from greenwashing ads, report says

#greenwashing #google #green capitalism

[callese]

#green capitalism #life under climate change #man made global warming #capitalist system #capitalism kills #electric vehicles are not the answer #electric vehicles

[byler-alarmist]

Do people know most paper receipts are harmful to their health?

I'm going to get up on my soapbox for a minute, but do people realize how pretty much everyone is being overloaded with endocrine disruptors like BPA/BPS on a near-daily basis??

I don't think many people understand that ever since most of the world transitioned to thermal paper receipts (cheaper than ink), almost every receipt you handle from the gas station to the grocery store to the Square terminal printer at the local co-op is coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its chemical cousin Bisphenol-S (BPS).

These chemicals have not only been proven to cause reproductive harm to human and animals, they've also been linked to obesity and attention disorders.

Not sure if your receipt is a thermal receipt? If you scratch it with a coin and it turns dark, it's thermal.

BPA/BPS can enter the skin to a depth such that it is no longer removable by washing hands. When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 μg BPA is transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger. If the skin is dry or greasy, it is about ten times more. 

Think of how many receipts you handle every day. It's even worse for cashiers and tellers, who may handle hundreds in a single shift. It is also a class issue, since many people who work retail and food service are lower-income and will suffer worse health consequences over time from the near-constant exposure.

Not only that, receipts printed with thermal ink are NOT recyclable, as they pollute the rest of the paper products with the chemicals.

People don't know this and recycle them anyway, so when you buy that "green" toilet paper that says "100% recycled"? Yup, you are probably wiping your most sensitive areas with those same chemicals (for this reason, I buy bamboo or sugarcane toilet paper as a sustainable alternative to recycled paper).

This page from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has some good links if you want to learn more.

As consumers, we need to demand better from our businesses and from our governments. We need regulation of these chemicals yesterday.

If you are a buyer or decision-maker for a business, the link above also contains a shortlist of receipt paper manufacturers that are phenol-free.

If you work at a register, ask customers if they want a receipt. If they don't and you can end the transaction without printing one, don't print one!

As a consumer, fold receipts with the ink on the inside, since that's where the coating is. Some more good tips here.

And whatever you do, DO NOT RECYCLE THERMAL RECEIPTS

#i realized the other day that lots of ppl i talked to had no idea this was even a thing #important psa #demand more from your retailers and governments #environment #bisphenols #bpa free #bpa/bps #retail #food service #shopping #working class #capitalism #endocrine disruptors #endocrine disorders #adhd #eco lifestyle #environmental pollution #pollution #toxic chemicals #reproductive health #science #health #environmentalism #eco conscious #human health #consumer goods #consumer awareness #green living #green business #ecofriendly

[lilithism1848]

#earth day #leftism #socialism #communism #anti capitalism #anarchy #ecosystem #environment #ecology #eco #save the planet #go green #save the earth #recycle #april 22 #save the bees #twitter x #save the children