Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
The SOYMB blog first drew attention to the term capitalocene here
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2015/11/anthropocene-v-capitalocene.html
and further explained it
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2016/01/is-it-anthropocene-or-financialobscene.html
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-age-of-capitalocene.html
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2016/05/capitalocene-or-age-of-capital.html
Last used on the SOYMB blog
“Within the environmentalists, we find entrenched a hotchpot of misconceptions, myths, and even mystical New Age beliefs. A number hold Malthusian misanthropic anti-human dogmas. Out of a concern about the environment, they draw the mistaken conclusion that it is ourselves, humanity, interfering with “Mother Earth” and not capitalism which is leads to ecological destruction. Thus they call this the Anthropocene period and not the Capitalocene epoch. A number of Greens fail to acknowledge the inevitability of human action in changing nature and consequently fail to demand the rational and democratic organisation of this interaction.” – https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-to-save-world.html
But isn’t part of the problem is that even those who actively campaign against climate change can be charged with a form of climate change denialism yet another depressing fact and evidence that collapsology has a strong element of reality within it.
However, even when the right-wing accepts climate change, what they come up with is Green New Nationalism, rather than Green New Deal
https://theweek.com/articles/823083/case-green-nationalism
“…What country is the largest contributor to climate change today? It’s not the United States — it’s China…. If they can’t get rich without threatening the Florida coastline, then they’ll have to stay poor… A nationalist approach, by contrast, would mobilize the full weight of America’s economic power to force China to adapt….”
“…If we’re going to prioritize the climate, then, we have to cut back on immigration. We can do that by simply throttling back on both legal and illegal immigration. Or we can take a more market-friendly approach and charge immigrants a carbon “bond” to cover the cost of offsetting the expected increase in their carbon footprint, which would have the effect of shutting most immigrants from poor countries out…”