Funny how so many Warmists want to get rid of capitalismn to achieve their cultish goals. They never quite want to say what they want to replace it with, though, just that they hate capitalism, as they use their smartphones, tablets, and computers while wearing their mass produced clothes from around the world eating their avocado toast sipping on over-priced coffee
Steven Mnuchin, President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos with a snide remark directed at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. (snip)
I, too, could not contain myself after Mnuchin’s Davos remark. I tweeted this:
Mnuchin, sadly, makes sense. If Greta were to study mainstream economics, she would spend several semesters studying models of markets in which neither a climate disaster nor an economic crisis is possible. Time to transform both econ policy AND economics!https://t.co/EYaRr60f46
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) January 23, 2020
See, he’s not real happy with capitalism
But Trump and his cabal appear to understand something that their liberal detractors do not: One cannot acknowledge the perils of climate change, commit to doing whatever it takes to reverse it, and continue to think of capitalism as a natural system that can be tweaked to deliver shared, green prosperity.
Trump gets it: climate change is capitalism’s Waterloo. There is simply no feasible path toward the re-stabilization of the climate that is consistent with the maintenance of capitalism’s main pillars.
The system we live in, unlike the one implied by college economics textbooks, turns on a pathological dynamic recycling mechanism: Oligopolies extract exhaustible value from humans and nature at breakneck speed, financed by debt-turbocharged financialization, which in turn fuels the extractive oligopolies.
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Uncouth and disagreeable, Trumpism is nonetheless an honest manifestation of the historic moment when late capitalism pushed humanity past the point of no return. Trump urges us to carry on, while Mnuchin suggests that Thunberg numb her soul with the opium of mainstream economics.
The only alternative to their policy of accelerated climate change, to the oil and finance curses that drive capitalism, is the wholesale disintegration of today’s technostructure. Do we have the stomach for it?
So, he wants to change the entire system, but, too what? Warmists just don’t usually like to say that they want the Central Government in charge.
