Rachel Donald
“the American (now world?) Dream (ie capitalism), sold as the ultimate vision of freedom, promises the freedom of choice.
#usa #australia
Freedom becomes limited to the infinity of pre-determined options, all powered by cheap, available energy.
#energy #fossilfuels
That this "freedom" hinges on the unlimited exploitation of fossil fuels—and the wider exploitation of capitalism—makes it a posture geared towards irresponsibility, towards cultivating the opportunity to do whatever one wants, whenever one wants, and not feel constrained in any way by biological or geophysical limits, let alone the limits of the wider community.
#environment #society
It is peculiar and interesting that contingent to capitalism is the very limit of capital itself: resources must be distributed unequally so that some dream while others toil.”
#inequality #capitalism
Book : Alyssa Battistoni ‘ free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature’
https://www.planetcritical.com/freedom-at-the-end-of-the-world/?ref=planet-critical-newsletter