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20 theses against green capitalism.

Publication: Synthesis/Regeneration
Publication Date: 22-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 20 theses against green capitalism.(Climate Economics: Sense & Nonsense)

Article Excerpt
[Below are a few critical theses against green capitalism. They were originally intended as an input for a meeting in Poznan discussing the mobilization towards/against the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen, but may be useful in all sorts of discussions.]

No to false solutions! Climate Justice Now!

1. The current world economic crisis marks the end of the neoliberal phase of capitalism. "Business as usual" (financialization, deregulation, privatization ...) is thus no longer an option: new spaces of accumulation and types of political regulation will need to be found by governments and corporations to keep capitalism going.

2. Alongside the economic and political as well as energy crises, there is another crisis rocking the world: the biocrisis, the result of a suicidal mismatch between the ecological life support system that guarantees our collective human survival and capital's need for constant growth.

3. This biocrisis is an immense danger to our collective survival, but like all crises it also presents us, social...

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