Capitalism is Incompatible: Denial & Greenwashing

2,804 likes, 10 comments - earthlyimagine on August 24, 2026: "a living forest generates oxygen, holds soil, shelters wildlife, and stabilizes the climate, yet market systems assign it zero economic value while it stands. it only registers as wealth once destroyed, measured in board-feet of timber or cleared real estate. when an economic model cannot value the living systems that sustain life until they are killed and commodified, ecological collapse becomes an inevitable feature of the system rather than an accidental design flaw.".

What capital sends into the atmosphere returns as unequal disaster

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We are running out of time to avoid climate disaster. As signatories to the 2015 Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate

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“Nature Is Not A Commodity” – Mass Protests at COP30 Summit

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One of humanity’s greatest challenges today is the environmental crisis, which threatens our very existence. Our latest dossier explores its class character, showing that the climate catastrophe is a product of capitalism’s relentless drive for accumulation.

A CMCC study in Science Advances finds that net-zero climate policies avoiding 1.5°C overshoot could prevent 207,000 deaths and save $2.3 trillion USD in economic losses by 2030 through cleaner air.

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In the Americas, old forms of extractivism and accumulation are being rebranded under the guise of “green” development. But beneath the surface, the reality is stark: the transition being promoted today is not a break from fossil capitalism—it is its reinvention as a kind of fossil gattopardismo, in which energy demand expands and the extraction of hydrocarbons intensifies as part of the approach to energy transition, under the illusory umbrella of “net zero” policies.

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Society is nearing a point at which we will no longer be able to live in the contradictory space between capitalist growth and ecological sustainability. We can either destroy what’s left of our planet in a quest for the last bits of extracted wealth, or transition to an ecological society based on community, mutual aid, and collective production. We cannot do both.

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