Why Capitalism Can't Handle Climate Change

Climate change is shaping up to be the single most destructive and expensive challenge humanity has ever faced. In this episode, we'll explore why capitalism is incapable of solving the problems it creates, and what we should expect in the coming decades.

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[ThePunter]

"Sure, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for the shareholders!"- Psychopathic CEOs to their kids in 2050.

[kinesissado]

It’s crazy people really froze to death in Texas because of a problem that was completely avoidable and the whole country just shrugged their shoulders and moved on

[luminarytheaters]

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein.

[guilhermeteodosio]

"There's a car coming towards you, how do you avoid getting hit?"
A) Moving into a new direction
B) Blaming the left

[OurChangingClimate]

Always a pleasure working with THE Second Thought, especially on such a crucial topic. Thanks for the collab!

[gabby.maya]

I wish the climate change “debate” was about different methods to fix the issue and not whether it’s real or not.

[flutee]

It's incredibly embarrassing for humanity to create its own downfall, ignore it, and continue to exacerbate it simply because it's the "status quo".

[highgroundobi-wan]

When your system is so distopic that a normal world sounds like a utopia

[ziziroberts]

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.
- Cree Indian Prophecy

[thesocialistlion]

"But alas, no one cared. Well actually a lot of people cared and were worried, but alas, no one important cared."

[diablo]

“The planet will be fine, the people are fucked.” -George Carlin

[theedgewater]

I always looked up to business people in suits when i was younger cause they seemed to be the most successful people now i just see them as losers who sold their souls for greed

[mehdihassan]

“So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.”

[MiceOnVenus_]

As a Central American, every time I hear The United Fruit Company my blood boils.

[PumkRock]

Honestly, this is why my wife and I ultimately have decided not to have children.

It's not like we were super big on the idea to begin with, we already have a dog and he's a big enough pain in my arse.

But idk the idea of bringing life into a doomed world just seems wrong to me. It's easier for most people to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism- I wouldn't want our children to have to live through it.

[thomasridley]

Greed always makes life more difficult than it needs too be. A possiblity fatal flaw
in our economic structure.

[SokaRome]

This topic infuriates me, as a 14 yo, it’s so annoying to see the rich being ignorent and destroying the world that we the younger generation will and are living on

[nolanwilson]

I was talking to somebody about deregulation of the texas power grid and I was talking about how it killed people and his actual answer was "but think about how much money they saved"

[harsarligan]

What you’re doing is a huge service to humanity.

[suprasaiyang]

World ends.

Capitalism: " i see this as an absolute win"