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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Climate News: Capitalism is at the root of the climate crisis and we urgently need and alternate story
Description: Capitalism is consuming the planet and as it endlessly consumes to satiate its ever-growing appetite, it's taking all life, including you and I, to a rather gloomy conclusion.
Writing on "Meditations" - Journal of the Marxist Literary Group - Jodi Dean says:
"Many associate Fredric Jameson’s remark, “It’s easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism” with Mark Fisher. For good reason: Fisher’s account of capitalist realism confronts us with capitalism’s unbearable yet unavoidable horrors. From the genocidal
destruction of settler colonialism, through the demolition of cultures and...