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Markets and tech won’t solve climate emergency… (Foster interviewed for “Truthout”)

Markets and tech won’t solve climate emergency… (Foster interviewed for “Truthout”)

as many have observed, for many people it’s easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Foster’s book tells us that we have a choice: “ruin or revolution.” The reason for the necessity of revolution is that tinkering won’t solve our problems. Technocratic fixes won’t save the Earth as a place fit for human habitation. The problem, as he told me in the interview that follows, is systemic….