Climate Change, Crisis, and Capitalism

[@Daimerian]

Enjoyed listening to the talk.

[@martiansoon9092]

Nationalize public transport. Make it available for all. And make it totally free. Take needed money from the 1-10% of the richest people in the country. All large corporations and all wealth growth over 100k per year should pay minimum 20% taxes immediately. This only while we try to work a better system where wealth is distributed better.

[@martiansoon9092]

2 things could really change. 1) Give all firms a requirement that people who work in their firms owns at least 10% of the firm. 2) From every salary 5% is given as a ownership of the firm (depending on salary and economic size of the firm) to the workers. This leads to 2 things. First workers are related to firm and have saying for how it is run. Secondly workers have a real value to make firm more profitable, because they are the owners of the firm. But for the nature this does not mean quck remedies or in some cases no remedies at all. For workers this would mean a lot.

[@green2stayecoswdmarketingn339]

'Excellent ,Thanks!'

[@martiansoon9092]

You don't even need to calculate a "lag" in the system, but only known aerosol dimming effect. It's 0,6C (IPCC) or even 1,4C (recent Hansen study) and that leads from current 1,15C to 1,75C or even to 2,55C. (And keep in mind all other forces that builds over time rises temperatures even further.) That is already baked in. And we have likely seen this effect in action in Atlantic ocean heating 0,5C over previous record temperatures after ships were made cleaner and they reduced specially sulphate emissions (main component of cooling cloud formation). So we are already emitted enough emissions that we end up over 2C and perhaps if we keep emissions going we go well over 3C. 3C is the lower limit of human extinction. At minimum global food and water availabilty will collapse at a level that leads multitude of society collapses.

[@martiansoon9092]

Yea, we have made this farm issue in many regions. Like in Africa we have bought family farms from locals, so we can grow ie. coffee, then we use locals as a workforce, but we won't pay them enough for their work, so they and their family goes on hunger. And they won't have any land left to grow their own food like they used to. That's a death plan for all in the region, even those who run the farms are ran over when all around them goes hungry. We have to take all rich and too wealthy out from their given positions. Share their wealth more evenly. And really start the fight against climate change, nature poisoning and nature degredadtion. Also we have around 10-20 years timeline to do it. After that we will reach over 2C warming and may end up well above 3C that is just extremely hard to survive temperature rise. At that timescale global change on everything... Well, we have to try. There is no alternative.

[@martiansoon9092]

Social media and internet produces already huge energy demands and creates heavy burden ecologically (build everything that is needed there...). And the consumption is just growing. Any over consumption is bad. And I know I'm a heavy internet user with huge emissions in that front.

[@janklaas6885]

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[@wbarzinji9503]

Please use the word Chaos instead of Anarchy because simply Anarchy means no rulers or no bosses but doesn't mean no rules. So equating Anarchy with chaos is like equating capitalist wage system with libertarian communism. Anarchy and chaos both are Greek words and has completely opposite meaning. By the way English is my third language as I am Kurdish but l learned to know the different between these two Greek words' meaning.

[@creamone]

Socialism is a good transitioning point to a new economic system called a Resource Based Economy.

[@Libertarianach_na_h-Alba]

You're every bit as ignorant as the guy speaking in this video and what is laughable is his own definition of capitalism, the type of compulsive liar who says that that market anarchy caused our problems. Funny that is, the U.K. and U.S. banks were both over regulated going into 2008, the entire private sector is over regulated by the state, so what did you compulsive liars do? Spread lies to people that deregulation caused such a crisis. The real question is: what deregulation? Precisely, there wasn't deregulation. Which is how we know for a fact that you socialists can't help yourself but spread lies.

[@Libertarianach_na_h-Alba]

So, he stands there and tells lies about capitalism, claims we have _"market anarchy,"_ which is more lies and then spreads misinformation of baseless claims contradicted by history that capitalism led to decline in wages. It's just like the myth about cutting costs making the workplace more dangerous, here's a fact for you: If a business cuts costs and the workplace does become more dangerous, a business has a reputation to uphold, if the reputation of the business is well known for being dangerous, it forces the company employer to pay out more on wage premiums in order to entice employees to come and work for such a dangerous company. That is to say that a business employer would be forced to pay out higher wages because of the dangerous reputation. Why else you think you see dangerous jobs pay out higher wages? That's not because of government, that's because if you want to entice people to work for such a company, you're forced to pay out more in wage premiums. So if a business wishes to make more profit, this incentivises them to keep the cost down by improving the safety of the workplace. Furthermore, the claim of cutting costs to reduce wages ignores the fact the company has competitors up against them and the workers have choice who they choose to work for, as history proves, wages drove up, not down, again, this completely contradicts the entire baseless claim and narrative this guy just spouted. Typical socialists, can't help themselves but spread myths despite history flying in the face of their baseless claims, just make things up as they go along and hope that the nonsense they spout sticks.

[@caldweab]

Libertarian Views Scotty M Yeah tell that nonsense to the employees at one of the sweat shops in countries like Bangladesh who produce products for some or the most profitable consumer good corporations in the world. See, this is the problem with libertarianism. Libertarian theory and ideas are based on fantasy. The whole ideology crumbles under the smallest amount of scrutiny.