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Something big happened this morning. David Attenborough, speaking on BBC radio, pointed to capitalism as the main driver of ecological breakdown. The debate is beginning to shift. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54268038
"The excesses the capitalist system has brought us, have got to be curbed somehow." "We are going to have to live more economically than we do. And we can do that more happily, not less happily."
Crucially, he recognizes that inequality is at the core of the ecological crisis. Our planet will begin to recover, he says, when "those that have a great deal, perhaps, have a little less." We need to rebuild "a working ecosystem in which everybody has a share".
I've been critical of Attenborough in the past for his refusal to confront these realities. This represents a real shift in his discourse and, I hope, an opening for a broader public conversation.