Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

It’s a pivotal instrument to confront the multitude of challenges, tiny and towering, urgent and slow-burning, local and global, facing people, communities, society, and future generations in the twilight of industrial era capitalism.

Some people try to reconcile this tension by leaning on the hope that technology will save us – that innovation will make growth ‘green’. Efficiency improvements will enable us to ‘decouple’ GDP from ecological impact so we can continue growing the global economy for ever without having to change anything about capitalism. And if this doesn’t work,