Climate change: is capitalism the problem?

Is capitalism the problem? And if that's the case, what should we do instead?

This is a guest video by Hazel Thayer as I have taken July off to work on my new studio. Please do give her a warm welcome and if you like this video introducing climate economics, please check out her channels!

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REFERENCES
Externalities without math: https://www.iisd.org/savi/faq/what-is...
We can measure GDP and include the environment as to include negative externalities in our calculations (green GDP) https://seea.un.org/news/rise-fall-an...

Capitalist-adjacent or reformist degrowth books
- Less is More by Jason Hickel
- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
- Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
Anti-capitalist degrowth books/articles
- Slow Down by Kohei Saito
- Timothee Parrique’s work

Inequality is increasing rapidly https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/...
Inequality makes climate change worse https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/...
Increasing inequality increases emissions https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Some stock footage courtesy of Getty.
Edited by Luke Negus.

Is capitalism bad for the environment? And if it is, what are the alternatives anyway? In this video about climate change and capitalism, economist Hazel Thayer aka hazelisonline talks about what capitalism is, why it might not be working great, and what we can do to fix capitalism so that it doesn't trash the planet.

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