What if capitalism can, in certain ways, resolve the crisis of climate change to allow its continued reproduction & the maintenance of a fairly similar standard living in the Global North? This had never struck me as impossible.

Forced suppression of consumption by the global poor + geoengineering to keep to 2 degrees + adaptation in much of the Global North + radically intensified border regimes because even 2 degrees means huge, huge numbers of climate refugees.

Saying capitalism can’t resolve climate change makes it too easy for ourselves, ignores how at the very least there are forms of the Green New Deal (investment to save capitalism, new resource frontiers opened up) that will be part of that.

There are two general interests of capital & they often conflict: 1. An economic sort, here the destruction of conditions of accumulation runs against it. 2. The interests of hegemonic fractions organised through the state, this is driving capital towards catastrophe.

But there might be a shift in which fractions are hegemonic.

Essentially on augment we need to be making is capital can solve climate change but that would be horrible, really horrible.

Like josie says this was part of my Southampton Transformed talk - around trasformismo, the Green New Deal and being very literal about what Faustian pacts are -still wondering if it’s worth writing up a version for NS’s ecology edition. https://twitter.com/ofthesparrows/status/1301437024726142977?s=21