Why Capitalism Is Killing Us (and the Planet)
Scroll down for your weekly dose of quotes and links! But before you get to that, here is this week’s new video:
Three Quotes:
“When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
— Unknown
“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.”
— Naomi Klein
“Given that [poor people] were led to believe that anyone can control his or her life and shape it according to personal desires, the frustration that arises when products are unobtainable is judged a personal failure, not the structural failure of the system”
— Omar Felipe Giraldo
Three Links:
Can ‘Ethical’ Consumption Exist Under C*pitalism? (no) (ivie_online)
Shell Executive Boasts About Influencing the Paris Agreement (The Intercept)
The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry (Andreas Malm)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie