I find this article a nice example of the frustrating situation "true conclusions but falsely argued". A couple observations on what Monbiot gets wrong, in my opinion, in the relationship between capitalism and environment 1/n
RT @GeorgeMonbiot@twitter.com
Only when we look at the deep history of capitalism do we see it for what it really is: a fire front, raging across the planet, ignited by people who operate offshore.
My column.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1445725539310915584
The kind of slash/burn/abandon pattern he describes is, in fact, common to many previous societies. In my book I explain how ancient Greek and Chinese writers (including Plato!) denounced the devastation of their natural environment to exploit resources 3/n
especially wood, exactly as Monbiot describes. Non-capitalist and even pre-agrarian societies could work this way; Paleolithic hunters erased the Pleistocene megafauna without needing any kind of free market! 4/n