Degrowth communism or system collapse?

Ron Immink
10 min readAug 15, 2024

I am a fan of Buddhist economics. The main conclusion is that GDP is a perverse metric. Humans are more than economic units.

Capitalism is the ultimate cause of climate breakdown

Kohei Saito thinks that capitalism is the ultimate cause of climate breakdown. And that capitalism is not going to solve the problem of the severe ecological burden our daily existence imposes on the planet. Green capitalism is a myth. SDGs are a myth. Carbon tax is not the solution. Neither is a new green deal. They are all smoke screens to avoid the inevitable conclusion. What got you here will not get you there. Because all these models still have a growth modus as the basis. We need to go to degrowth and a redefinition of society.

Plundering

Capitalism uses humans as tools for accumulating capital and profits from the natural world by simply plundering its resources directly. His fear is that the world will end before capitalism does. The diminished availability of fossil fuel is not the only limit we face. In fact, it’s not even the most important. Even before we run out of oil, we’re running out of planet.

A more democratic, egalitarian and sustainable vision of our economy

Saito proposes that instead of the undemocratic state socialism controlled by state bureaucrats…

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Ron Immink

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