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@crashnova7601
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 am
Capitalism eating everything in sight, including itself.
@sharafaddin6226
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 pm
I agree with you
@genhen
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 pm
like all of nature, animal eats everything then they all starve
@Franciboi
December 23, 2025 at 11:12 am
Lol Capitalism can’t be “fixed” it was never broken and is working exactly as intended, an economic system that incentivises profit above all else will always require extractavism and exploitation to function, it’s time for an economic system that serves the 99%, not the 1%
@ezequielortiz4188
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 am
And what will be that economic system that fixes all the problems?
@estudiopersonal1020
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 am
@ezequielortiz4188 do you know cybersyn? Research about It, and remember that was done in the 70s
There always have been outsiders, but education is not focused on something that can touch the system of society for obvius reasons.
Jacque Fresco, Skinner and a long etc have envisioned a different society.
But ppl is tp dumb to realize the way they think and what they value has been given to them by their environment. And eveything can be changed
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 am
Climate change is the direct result of capitalism. Capitalism cannot fix climate change.
@michaelwatts1810
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 am
Carbon credits are nothing more than a way for corporations to ignore their impact on the environment.
@TituIonuț
December 23, 2025 at 11:37 am
🎉❤
@patrickbevan1747
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 am
Love this. I’ve seen this throughout my career, people really invest in today. They are looking for the dopamine hit of profits now, not in 20 or 50 years time. Howvere, if we can make peopel understand investing in Sustainabilit yis thye same as investing is a pension we may get somewhere – write the money off before it hits your acount so you don’t feel the pain and start drip feeding reward in terms of the benefits they are creating for the future.
@ohnorickyo
December 23, 2025 at 11:45 am
Yeah, man, climate change is getting in the way of a prosperous society, making people freeze the death because we have to switch to solar
@estudiopersonal1020
December 23, 2025 at 11:47 am
Capitalism has no fixing. It had too many years of impacting human behaviour and ppl rly don’t want to hear about It.
Most ppl identity and behaviour has been shaped in this cancerous system
@meanderinoranges
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 am
What a perfect example of a watermelon. Green on the outside, red on the inside. Communism wrapped in a thin veil of environmentalism.
@CalicoCooperFan
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 am
We need to improve capitalism while fighting against socialism.
@punkrocksuperman1886
December 24, 2025 at 10:45 am
Why fight against socialism?
A system based on greed and fundamentally encourages greed cannot fight against greed. Capitalism has failed but it’ll take us with it if we allow it.
Socialism isn’t necessarily incompatible with freedom. We can build systems that encourage cooperation without needlessly repressing personal property.
We need a cooperative economy, an economy that guarantees universal necessities, and an economy that is ecologically sustainable. Check out worker cooperatives, we can bring democracy to the workplace.
@CalicoCooperFan
December 24, 2025 at 1:38 pm
@punkrocksuperman1886People flee socialist and communist countries for “better lives” in capitalist countries. If socialism is a person’s preference that lives in America, there are plenty of socialist and communist countries for them to move to without trying to ruin our nation. Just pack up your stuff and go live your best socialist life.
@punkrocksuperman1886
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 pm
@CalicoCooperFan Most of those countries suck because of the embargos placed on them from capitalist countries and none are paragons of freedom and democracy because Marxist Leninist socialist experiments have failed. The only notable success is China that emulates capitalism but with way more restrictions on regular people.
I want to make my country, where all my family and friends are, a place where everyone has what they need and capitalism doesn’t create that.
If you don’t want that for your country then you clearly don’t love your country and should leave so people who do can make it better.
Also since my country is America then that would also mean lifting embargos and defending wars that needlessly harm people without any benefit to regular people.
@travisonyima2243
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 pm
@C@CalicoCooperFanhe people who “flee” socialist and capitalist countries don’t leave because of ideological differences. They leave because corrupt leaders who either inherited generational messes or don’t care about their people fail to deliver on the ideological framework of their governments
@thierryvankerm8474
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Second market should be closed: it doesn’t bring a penny to the companies concerned by the share. Investors on the second market are for most of them, thieves, legally, but thieves anyway, sucking the resources of the company
@thierryvankerm8474
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 pm
It sounds like green washing. The only way to address climate change is to get rid of capitalism because it’s te engine that will always want to speed up and up and up…
@r2stik
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 pm
i do not agree! GREED is what eating us alive!!!
@AndroidAccountant
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 pm
Rewire? ❎
End ✅
@wishbonebrewery
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 pm
We need to convince the knuckle draggers of the world, the world is going the wrong direction, especially since DJT and his administration of Trump fluffers.
@RealXstream2
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 pm
PATIENT Capital is key to SUSTAINABLE Capitalism
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
December 24, 2025 at 10:59 am
The world is gonna fucking end because of that braindead mindset. The climate apocalypse is the direct result of capitalism
@PlasticBank
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 pm
If better solutions exist, why are we still funding the worse ones? 🤔
@RealXstream2
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 pm
It’s good to see TED is still relevant
@closedchill5243
December 23, 2025 at 3:53 pm
It’s capitalism and climate and democracy though. Policy comes from politicians voted in democratically. They say whatever they think will get the most votes. There are so many miserable/scared people they’re not thinking about planetary health. They just want financial relief. They vote for politicians who promise that.
@prince_sach50
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 pm
Capitalism is EVIL.
@darinherrick9224
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 pm
The answer to capitalism isn’t more capitalism its socialism and planned economies.
If companies will not invest to save the world the government must do it if they don’t cut emissions they must be taken over by the government for the common good.
Oil and energy companies should all have been nationalized ages ago.
@Eminetics
December 23, 2025 at 9:01 pm
I do believe Gen Z will find a solution to climate change as it will affect them the most they will naturally be the ones that need to step up. Till then, we wait and pray.
@AnkitGupta-gq5qk
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 pm
I see most of the wealthy gen z are still chasing profits anyhow and even intensely after seeing the market scenario. We need to syllabus in schools.
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 am
The solution is communism. Your praying is actively preventing a solution.
@AnkitGupta-gq5qk
December 24, 2025 at 11:09 am
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505i can understand you as i am myself Communist Party support and Labour Union supporter but they also need to reform, some of Marx dialects aren’t valid today. Especially about the dictatorship as people mostly don’t want a single party and central command economy will be efficient still. It’s about policies and eradicating of personal profit oriented mindset in society. I guess market socialism will do the job.
@Eminetics
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 pm
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505I am confident they will find the answer, I will continue living my life as I am. I do not think I need to change because 1 person does not make a difference.
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
December 24, 2025 at 1:31 pm
@AnkitGupta-gq5qkLeninism is bad and wrong. I am a post-scarcity utopianist. A one party system is not what i advocate, only for a communist economic system. Not political system. The economy needs to be communist, the legislature needs to be parliamentarian
@brianr4247
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 am
Commies be like pay more taxes to change the weather
@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 am
κΥS
@danielcaceres9971
December 24, 2025 at 8:34 am
Endless growth (capitalism) does not fit into a world with finite resources
@PaRAtro0per
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 am
The problem not addressed here is that policy makers are not able to be elected against demagogues that just lie their way in. Safe and sound goals cannot win in an uneducated and self centered society. Here in Canada, we rolled back just about every policy. We are collectively screwed.
@philovon
December 24, 2025 at 10:53 am
Interesting ideas but no attempt to address the broader systemic issues with capitalism — e.g., accelerating growth requirements, heavily incentivized (and increasing) material extraction in a world with limited resources, and it’s not at all obvious the system wouldn’t collapse if you priced in the externalities correctly (how one even determines the value of things is an open ended question, and clearly the free market’s answer of ignoring things isn’t a very good one). Anyhow — I still enjoyed the talk, there are some ideas in here that are certainly better than what we are doing.
@bartroberts1514
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 pm
Phaseout fossil first.
Negative Embodied Emission Production (NEEP) recognizes that it is more profitable to produce fossil-free, to capture and sequester as part of manufaction and energy generation, than to use fossil and emit GHGs.
Basalt fiber in place of steel rebar. Biochar. Kaolin in place of limestone in cement. Flash steel. Elysis aluminum. PolyEster Covalent Adaptable Network (PECAN) biopolymer thermosets. Biomass-sourced thermoplastics. Biofuel, geothermal, hydro at all scales, solar, wind energy.
Retool to NEEP while the fossil phaseout proceeds, and we can fix this in a decade.
@travisonyima2243
December 24, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Capitalism is antithetical to realistic climate ambitions. COP climate gatherings remind us every year. The policymakers are bending the knee to corporate lobby influence. This is a good vision for companies with the capital to care but for those that luck such capital or concern they will continue to resist until socialist and communist leaders with backbone hold them accountable
@Rafa-nk7ry
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 pm
China just built the world’s largest coal-fired power plant and plans to increase the amount of coal burned by 2050. India celebrated exceeding 1 billion tons of coal production. Leftists – let’s fix capitalism.
@hansparel413
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 pm
Green growth arguments are internally coherent within financial capitalism, but incomplete when measured against planetary limits.
@NathanielDavis-c6k
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 pm
11:25-11:53. Cleaner, cheaper, faster, better overall quality, greater efficiency and long term sustainability. Absolutely agreed. And greatly reassuring and appreciated as a full-time plant based supporter, myself. Let’s please not allow capitalism to destroy these valuable and necessary causes for humanity’s greater good.
@Smurfingsmurfer
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 am
Sustainability is a real thing on a smaller scale but with corporations it’s a buzzword to distract you from the damage they do
@pratik_kumbhare
December 25, 2025 at 2:55 pm
Capitalism: “Create a problem -> Solve the same problem -> Make more money for people at the very top (and ignore meaningful objectives)”
Leadership: “Absolutely!”