capitalism can’t solve climate change :(

Nope, especially since it’s the biggest contributor to it.

What a vague and silly comment, half the world’s top contributors to greenhouse gasses aren’t even capitalist countries.

The US military is the single largest polluter organisation on the planet - do tell me how we can’t blame capitalism again?

And just for your information - that other gigantic capitalist country you falsely believe isn’t capitalist? Guess what? It’s capitalist.

China is the number one greenhouse gas contributor, Russia is near the top of the list as well. Fuckin tankies.

If you think those 2 are communist countries, you’re stuck in the last century. Let me give you some news. The Soviet Union collapsed and gave way to a capitalist oligarchy. China realized that capitalism is profitable and brings them tons of money from the west. I have no idea why tankies still simp those countries as communist (wait, I do actually - because tankies never had any principles of their own, they just wanted to be anti-west).

There is one country that needs to kickstart change for it to have any effect, it’s the US. Not only does it pollute the most per capita, it’s a huge market. My tiny ass country with fuel prices already being twice as much in the US, can raise fuel prices even more, but that won’t affect global demand. Americans no longer getting fuel for essentially free, would actually affect global demand.

Yes, of course, because political systems are binary and there’s only capitalism and communism lmao

There’s plenty of systems that mix both, but Russia and China aren’t actually good examples. They’re pretty capitalist.

If you want a better example of mixing capitalism with socialism, you can take a look at something like the Nordic countries, where there are tons of social services and safety nets, but there’s still a very strong (just regulated) free market.

There’s plenty of systems that mix both, but Russia and China aren’t actually good examples. They’re pretty capitalist.

State companies and state-connected companies own more than half of each one’s economy. More than in Nordic countries.

Because capitalism with state protection is not capitalism I guess.

In each, we’re talking about capitalism with the caveat that the owners of the country want a kickback too, and in return local capitalists are protected from foreign capitalists. Vladimir Putin owns Russia, the CCP owns China. In neither case does capital belong to “the people” as a whole.