Green capitalism?
What if there was a way to make capitalism environmentally friendly and more economically robust, in a way that benefited workers in particular? Liberals like Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are claiming that a ‘Green New Deal’ would do just that. Can it? Or is it the very nature of capitalism that makes it so destructive to the environment?
Global heating and socialism
The author formulates alternative long-range scenarios for human survival or extinction in the context of global heating. What are the prospects of ‘green capitalism’? What does the climate crisis imply for our thinking about socialism?
