Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller
10 06 22
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Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change
Adrienne Buller
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Adrienne Buller to discuss how the tech and finance industries are selling us false solutions to the climate crisis that are designed for their own benefit.
Guest
Adrienne Buller is the Director of Research at Common Wealth and the author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Follow Adrienne on Twitter at @adribuller.
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Links
- Adrienne originally wrote about the problem with the finance industry’s approach to climate change for Novara Media. She recently wrote about the failure of green capitalism for the Guardian and the power BlackRock wields for Jacobin.
- Common Wealth recently produced a report on Asset Management Capitalism.
- Elon Musk called ESG a scam after Tesla was booted from the S&P 500’s ESG fund.
- Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen wrote The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism.