Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem

"What is needed is a “co-revolutionary movement,” that will bring together the traditional working-class critique of capital, the critique of imperialism, the critiques of patriarchy and racism, and the critique of ecologically destructive growth."

S/R 55: Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem (John Bellamy Foster)

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In the opening paragraph to his 2009 book, Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen, the worlds foremost scientific authority on global warming, declared: Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in im…