Zur Einleitung von Sven Beckerts Kapitalismus-Buch: Kapitalismus als Prozess

Am Montag habe ich die Einleitung zu Sven Beckerts Geschichte des Kapitalismus (Beckert, 2025a) gelesen. Ich habe die englische Epub-Version gekauft; das Buch ist auch auf deutsch erschienen (Beckert, 2025b) und medial zu Recht gerade sehr präsent. Empfehlenswert zur Orientierung ist Thilo Jungs Gespräch mit Beckert bei „Jung und Naiv“ (Jung & Naiv, 2026). Die Einleitung ist sehr lesbar geschrieben. Beckert gibt einen Überblick über sein Buch und stellt seinen Zugang zum Gegenstand „Kapitalismus“ dar. […]

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Zur Einleitung von Sven Beckerts Kapitalismus-Buch: Kapitalismus als Prozess – Lost and Found

https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion/environment/2025/nov/27/limate-related-risks-uk-economy-security

" paraphrased
Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen :
“The choice is between deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution; or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise]. And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.”

On nature, Nathalie Seddon, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said:
“We are facing a national emergency not only because the climate is changing, but because the living systems that protect the climate are breaking down. This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.”

Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, said that a collapse in the Atlantic meridianal overturning current (Amoc) would leave London freezing in winters of -20C, “and yet the summers would still be hotter than today’s”, leading to a situation where the UK would be 100% reliant on food imports. “We have got to do everything in our power to limit the amount of time we spend above 1.5C [above preindustrial temperatures],” Lenton said.

Richard Nugee, a retired general, said politicians focused on the threat from Russia were failing to see the greater threat of the climate crisis. “Climate change is going to be a bigger problem than Russia,” he said. “It’s an insidious threat, one that has crept up. It’s going to do more damage than the threats they’re focused on now. But all they see is a resurgent Russia.”

He said politicians needed to ensure the UK could cope with the greater extremes of weather that were already apparent and going to worsen. The lack of action to ensure that vital infrastructure is resilient was leaving the country vulnerable to extreme weather, and open to attack from enemies who could perceive this weakness.

“Having spent most of my life fighting, I need to believe this country to be strong. The last thing I want to see is this country go to war. But we are not providing a sufficient deterrent, because we are not resilient enough [to the impacts of the climate crisis],” said Nugee.
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#ClimateCrisis #UK #KevinAnderson #UniversityOfManchester #UniversityOfOxford #Russia #TimLenton

Coral reefs cross survival limit, in Earth's first catastrophic climate tipping point • FRANCE 24

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Travelling 24hrs by coach from Milan to London to attend Global Tipping Points conference @uniofexeter 👉 https://global-tipping-points.org/conference-2025/,
I am excited to learn state-of-the-art on climate+social tipping points with #TimLenton,#JohanRockström & Co & about climate communication from @DoctorVive et al.

🚌=30kg CO2
✈️ =280kg (#Atmosfair)
#RefuseToFly #ClimateEmergency

@Ruth_Mottram

#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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Thank you, Ruth.
I will read it.

From all I have been reading, my aggregate "gut feeling" is that we still underestimate the rate of #ClimateChange, as well as the interconnectedness of #TriggerPoints:

“Triggering one tipping point 👉could trigger another in a kind of dangerous domino effect👈,” says #TimLenton at the #UniversityOfExeter in the #UK, the report’s lead author.
“But also 👉these tipping points in the Earth...

@Ruth_Mottram

#ClimateCrisis #CommunicationsStrategy

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Ruth,

not being a #Climate scientist, I know a bit of controlling and communications strategy.

I think, the issue of the highly complex issue of the interdependent #TippingPoints that #TimLenton at the #UniversityOfExeter summarized* ought to be visualized and controlled (in a management-accounting meaning) for the educated public and politicians.

I believe that a variation of the widely used...

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111541294917227129

@MichaelEMann @newscientist

*5 major tipping points*

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...effect,” says #TimLenton at the #UniversityOfExeter in the #UK, the report’s lead author. “But also 👉these tipping points in the Earth system could, in turn, trigger damaging tipping points in societies,👈 things like food security crises, mass displacement [#ClimateRefugees] and conflicts. Stopping these threats is possible, but it’s going to require urgent global action.”

"...the five major tipping points we are near to...