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Adrienne Buller - Illusions of Green Capitalism

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  • Опубліковано 19 гру 2022
  • Adrienne Buller is the Director of Research at Common Wealth, an organization focused on promoting democratic ownership to transform how the economy operates and for whom. Adrienne has recently published ‘The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism’ (2022), offering a deep dive into the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown. Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish.
    Adrienne also has significant experience at the coalface of climate policy advocacy, having served as the Co-Director of the campaign group Labour for a Green New Deal through 2017 and 2018.
    Adrienne holds an MSc in Global Governance and Ethics from our very own University College London and a Bachelor of Science from McGill University.
    We discussed ‘The Value of a Whale,’ the flaws in mainstream climate and environmental governance, corporate ‘green growth’ mindsets, the commodification of nature. and much, much more.
    Adrienne tweets @adribuller: / adribuller
    Publications:
    The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism (Manchester University Press, 2022): manchesteruniversitypress.co....
    Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis (with Matthew Laurence) (Verso Books, 2022): www.versobooks.com/books/3981...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 21

  • @treefrog3349
    @treefrog3349 Рік тому +13

    As much as I concur with all your sensible conclusions, and echo your humanistic concerns, at the ripe age of 73 I have come to realize that concentrated greed and power among an elite few have supplanted all logic, all wisdom, and all our "better angels" of human nature. Millions will concur with your observations, but only a few others can make the critical decisions that are needed.We have been aware of this impending crises for much longer than you have been alive, yet our "deciders" have responded abysmally. They will bask in their own greed, comfort and power until they no longer can. At that tragic point in time they just might "get it".

    • @marinoceccotti9155
      @marinoceccotti9155 Рік тому +3

      I'm 57 and I agree. We've known all the charts, the figures, the studies since the 70s. Only a global economic collapse may shuffle the deck, but I doubt we'd end up with a better world. We are cavemen, we gather resources compulsively should winter be harsh. Billionaires are just better cavemen.

    • @wanchattheeranaew9893
      @wanchattheeranaew9893 Рік тому

      I sadly agree with you.
      I would like to add that ruling classes are no longer in control of this system. In contrast, the system that we made is the one that control our direction.
      To solidify my point, imagine that one group of oligarchs suddenly change their mind into a good guy. It won't take longer than a year for their wealth to be robbed by the rest of ruling elites (including the emerging ones from thier circles). There is no way in hell that all of them will become good guys at the same time unless you believe that benevolence aliens come here and brainwash all of them.
      We are already in a fringe train running toward the cliff without a break.

    • @SvalbardSleeperDistrict
      @SvalbardSleeperDistrict Рік тому +1

      ​@@marinoceccotti9155 "We are cavemen, we gather resources compulsively should winter be harsh. Billionaires are just better cavemen"
      This kind of framing is exactly what those running and benefiting from capitalism and class society want everyone to adopt. Just come up with a slogan like this to normalise and naturalise the order of things, and obscure the fact that capitalism and class society are artificial creations that were formed, and are maintained, by a tiny minority with the threat of force and violence against the majority. Also obscure the entire history of progressive change, when class-conscious masses have won concessions from, or overthrown, those tiny groups in society maintaining those exploitative structures.
      The quote also ignores the existence of women, but that's another matter.

  • @mikeklein4949
    @mikeklein4949 Рік тому +1

    I prefer to think about policy development in this way. What is our vision for success? This will tell us we have achieved success, when we see that vision realised. What does the world look like one day, one development achievement prior to, away from success? What does the next day closer to today look like? Carry on step-by-step to what does today look like? Have we created a development map that leads from today to the vision by using the realised vision as our starting point? Never consider going from today in today's vision to make it to the ideal vision. Today's vision traps us into the process paradigm that is today's vision. Breaking out of that paradigm while remaining true to it is almost certainly impossible, perhaps no almost about it.

  • @buddyneher9359
    @buddyneher9359 Рік тому +1

    "cutting her teeth at the coalface of climate policy"..... hmmm. That word choice stands out in the introduction. Let's see if I can figure out the motive behind it as I listen.

    • @5wift
      @5wift Рік тому

      Did you? (figure it out)

  • @timeenoughforart
    @timeenoughforart Рік тому +1

    Not just move the corporate control of governance, but we need to shift from politicians to governors. How can we get people to vote for someone who will be honest? I'd suggest we start with corporate (for profit) news medias. Hard to do without getting pure government propaganda. Even harder with social media and the internet. Hope is hard to see as anything other than a mental illness.

  • @merek5380
    @merek5380 Рік тому +3

    Governance is the illusion that technocrats within an empire get to operate within as if history has ended and conflicting interests at any scale can simply be stepped over for the sake of progress.
    Progress is the mirror of finance capital since it's just as anti-human in its min/maxing of a new set if variables that power will set up client/patron networks through. If you want to exit capitalism, exit this technocratic crap.
    In regards to power, the house always wins. It doesn't matter how society organizes as long as power is secure. If problems actually get solved, that is secondary to security of power.
    We're better off declaring the elite kings and queens for the next 1000 years and begging them for more humanist social organizations than this illusion of make work programs full of proposals propped up with charts and graphs and goals of 5% Progress here, or such and such variable increasing/decreasing at such and such a rate. Why not tie people back to the land. Use propaganda to uphold primitive lifestyles. I have yet to find a green technocrat admit that every single person escaping rural living to live in the city is a loss for them.
    I'm in favor of ecology protection. Unfortunately the people in charge of this problem are tied up in the very set of logic that lead to this problem in the first place.

    • @emceegreen8864
      @emceegreen8864 Рік тому

      We have a “climate problem” because it’s a systemic externality of the present economic system. It’s a “machine that consumes and grows” in its simplicity.
      Rather than trying to get the tiger to change its stripes it makes sense to create a parallel system that’s designed to restore-not consume. Have a look at Carbon Quantitative Easing.

    • @merek5380
      @merek5380 Рік тому +1

      @Emcee Green people like the ones in this video are functionaries of the very system they claim to oppose. I've looked into carbon schemes, and I'm well aware of the rhetoric of systemic externalities. Why is it that financial institutions always have such high (good) environmental scores? Here, too, we have a problem with externalities. When financial institutions invest in environmental advocacy in the first world, their credit score goes up. Let's say, for example, financial institutions invest in advocacy that makes domestic logging more difficult. This causes their ESG score to go up. However, when that same financial institution deems domestic log production a bad invest and capital flows into unregulated logging in Indonesia that is devastating the environment. There is NO negative impact on ESG. That environmental impact burden IS NOT placed on financial institutions.
      Environmental concerns are just one way that corruption can justify scarcity by eliminating competition. Anyone well versed in finance knows that monopolies are highly profitable. When regulations are used to tear down industries so that new markets can open up, this has everything to do with power, and the environmental angle was nothing more than the political formula necessary to justify power. This has been going on for decades. Look into the history of rare earth metals, for example, and the corruption is clear to see. The same individuals who advocated on the grounds of environmental concerns to shut down domestic rare earth mineral mining profited tremendously from setting up new markets and supply chains in emerging markets extracted rare earth minerals in far less environmentally friendly ways.
      Call me crazy if capital flows away from the environmental regulations in the first world and into unregulated markets in the third world, then those financial institution's ESG scores should suffer as a result.
      This is why people like the one in this video are functionaries of power. Their NGOs and advocacy is pushing on open doors. Power WANTS these groups to impose more and more strict regulations.

  • @TheRustyLM
    @TheRustyLM Рік тому

    🌈🦄

  • @KravMagoo
    @KravMagoo 8 місяців тому +1

    Disappointed that a Canadian is a victim-perpetrator of the crime of vocal fry.

  • @emceegreen8864
    @emceegreen8864 Рік тому +1

    For non political solution to climate restoration look into Global Carbon Reward.
    Can’t believe it’s not getting discussed.

    • @SvalbardSleeperDistrict
      @SvalbardSleeperDistrict Рік тому

      There is no "non-political" solution to problems created by the politics of capitalism.