Why Capitalist Innovation Won't Save Us
Hey hey! Happy weekend! After a little vacation, I’m back with a new video and a new email. I highly recommend checking out the Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism essay below. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“From ancient Mesopotamia to modern China the evidence is clear: development implies underdevelopment, material wealth implies material poverty, freedom implies slavery and so on. These couplets are not two ends of a historical process, with modernisation ringing the death knell for the misery of the past, but contradictions within the modernisation process itself.”
— Chris Smaje
“Technicism and its latest model, eco-modernism, are new branchlets from an old branch: ecological modernization theory, which split off the trunk of Cold War modernization theory. The ruling-class response to the climate crisis is not new but first germinated amidst a very different crisis: the threat of Communism”
— Max Ajl
“The ecomodernist worldview depends upon a universalising narrative of smooth and pristine forward progress: ‘smooth forward progress’ in the sense that the human story it wishes to tell is one of almost uniform ascent towards greater wellbeing and greater control of nature”
— Chris Smaje
Three Links:
Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism (Dark Mountain)
Change Without Change: Eco-Modernism (Max Ajl)
The Decoupling Delusion: Rethinking Growth and Sustainability (The Conversation)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie