Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Futility of Green Capitalism

An interview with Daniel Tanuro from Climate and Capitalism, author of the new book, L’impossible capitalisme vert, or The Futility of Green Capitalism.

In addition to the contradictions that capitalism poses for a sustainable environment, Tanuro talks about ecosocialism as...
...a break with productivism and consumerism, of course, within the perspective of a society in which, the basic needs having been satisfied, free time and social relations constitute the real wealth. But also contestation of technologies and of harmful productions, coupled with the requirement of reconversion of the workers. Maximum decentralization of production and distribution in the framework of a democratically planned economy....