System Change Not Climate Change: Naomi Klein on Ecosocialism

14/09/2011

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Naomi Klein along with over a thousand others was arrested at the Tar Sands/XL pipeline protests. In response she was quoted as saying "It will be healthy for people to know there isn't a saviour in the White House. We have to build the movement we want. And the strategy can't be trying to wake up one person." To this end I wondered how much she had incorporated ecology with her anti-capitalist vantage i.e. ecosocialism. I think this video answers the question, with honors. Naomi Klein; Ecosocialist:
 


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Steve Gill
15/09/2011 3:54pm

Dear Ms Klein
May I compare my understanding of what you said or might be saying?....

The original economic model we have and value now, is not functional anymore, if it ever was, particularly from an ethical stand point.

We need new co-operative economic and business models, not the Darwinism we have and express as our economic credo presently... as exemplified by our banking systems, where the profit at any cost, and nearly any means, is all where no ethical or ecological audit is necessary.
The principles and ethos of our 'OLD' religious and social orders are still sublimely or unconsciously still in operation behind the functioning of our 'mind sets' as illegitimate 'givens'.
The current mind set status is set to operate by 'scapegoating' and 'defense building' one grouping (powerful and resource rich) against any other group, locally or world wide.
The 'OLD' social economic pyramid was steep with many courses before the apex. The new Pyramid needs to be very broad on the ground, but with relatively few layers under the apex! ?
Steven in England

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Stephen Gwynne
18/09/2011 1:03pm

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Degrowth Conference 2012

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30/09/2011 6:41am

I think the post is good for us.by 'scapegoating' and 'defense building' one grouping (powerful and resource rich) against any other group, locally or world wide.

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02/12/2011 3:15am

It would be helpful to be even more specific about the impetus for the need for constant, never-ending growth. It is a function of debt-/interest-based money that requires this growth. While this is an aspect of capitalism that relates to the central role of 'capital' in capitalism, it is more specific and enlightening to point to the money itself. Wikipedia admits that capitalism does not have a clear definition. More to the point, perhaps, is the conditioned belief that money is a tangible commodity to be accumulated - certainly an underpinning of the ideas about serving capital (ie., having it accumulate and grow) that are embedded in capitalism. The fact is there are other kinds of money that de-emphasize accumulation and scarcity. Money systems can be created, and in fact are already operational, in which currency is abundant and grows and shrinks in relation to its primary function to facilitate the trade of real goods. In other words, the more trade that is happening, the more money in circulation, and vice-versa. So maybe, while saying capitalism requires constant growth isn't technically wrong, there is a rich subtext that gets more at the root of the problem. Given the relentless pressure on the environment and climate as a result this current conception of money, being more specific and developing the money discussion further would perhaps enhance this talk.

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