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Can we buy our way out of a warming planet? Probably not, but advertisers will still try to sell Californians respirator masks as they flee historic wildfires. In this episode of The Idea File, Atlantic staff writer Alexis Madrigal explains how disaster capitalism will respond as weather conditions worsen due to climate change.
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Next watch this video on the ecological disaster unfolding in New Zealand as rats drive entire bird species into extinction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewz9L3KB9cg&list=PLDamP-pfOskO7zQRs2x7CnPHeiZSk43Nj&
Yawn. Not worthy of a video.
the endless opportunities to profit from people's suffering is so exciting!
Some people are aware of the lie of climate change and some even know that climate change is just them changing the climate. With advanced tech a huge industry emerges that will make more money than oil just look at https://www.solarenspace.com as an example.
thanks for showing Quebec's failures of winter management on HW13 again
I dont see what climate change has to do with some moron torching a forest.
Last I knew, timber/wood burns…in naturally hot areas like California timber will burn even quicker….
I like how the switched 'privatized' for the word 'individual'. Love that we are living in the cyberpunk universe where wealth and companies really do determine everything
Hospital: Yes, you're having a stroke but…. do you have insurance?
Now also fire department: Yes, your family and house are on fire but….do you have insurance?
It's pointless to think that we can be saved by anyone other than GOD; who by the way is very disappointed in mankind. People believe they're here to make a difference, to make the world a better place! Really? Mankind has all but destroyed what God has made perfect no matter what; and now they realize, " hey the climate is changing! Let's save the polar bears! Stop burning coal! The ozone layer is shrinking! Etc. Etc…..You would like to think that the small strides mankind is making will get it all back. But at the rate it's all accelerating, a small stride will SLOW to a stop, swallowed up by the fierce acceleration; it's a fact. So to a destructive mankind and to those who will spend their life trying to "make a difference", do this instead; turn to God and not to a special interest group 'cause it is GOD who made the earth and everything in it, and it is He who knows what should be done. Turn to him and you will know how perfect it all was and how perfect it will someday be !😇
At least we have a dozen variations of the same product enclosed by more packaging than product itself, of which supply is controlled by a handful of oligarchs in ivory towers spamming the airwaves and cityscape with flashy, propagandist advertisements 24/7 all so they can sell more products at the expense of the planet. God bless the free market where we're free to burn alive with over hundred brands of bottled water to sooth our smouldering gullets.
Whose island do you want to be on????? 2 comments down “I would be so offended if” me and a dude are having a discussion. If that person was ruler of an island and I had my island, whose would you want to be on?
In total, China, Brazil and Indonesia pollute VERY, VERY MUCH MORE than the U.S. Since they create the vast majority of harm through pollution of the entire earth, how can we stop THOSE PLACES? THEY ARE CAUSING THE PROBLEMS.
@3:38: Collectivity? Not a word.
Why is it bad when capitalist find ways to make $ off problems that clearly exist but ok for gov to make $/tax for problems like gw that are clearly debatable
Al gore in 2000, the world is going to end in 20y, well, here we are. (And off he flies in his private jet to his mansion)
Stop blaming everything on climate change the real problem is mismanagement !
Socialism is the final solution
Meanhile, Americans have a President who doesn't care!
MORALITY IS DEAD IN AMERICA BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MORALLY CORRUPTED BY ADHERING TO CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM THAT VALUES MATERIALISM MORE THAN HUMAN LIFE.
EMPATHY IS DEAD IN AMERICA. THIS IS THE UNDERLYING REASON WHY PEOPLE ARE AGAINST SOCIALISTIC PRINCIPLES.
Come on America we believe in you.
You just gotta demonise the police a bit more and you can privatise the police aswell!
The holy trinity of capitalist society is so close.
Sometimes I look at dredd and think it doesn't look that bad compared to what's to come irl.
Private Fire Fighters? Later we will have Private Police Dept. and we think it is normal? This is the most grotesque thing in 2019 after HK protest.
Eco-socialism combined with geoengineering is the only viable solution to climate change.
Well, when you cant trust the FDA (oxycontin scandle) or the FAA (737 max). I would say it's a safe bet to take care of your own and watch your own back. O, also the EPA (oil pipeline regulations and Dupont chemicals (pfas and teflon). O, also the war on terror we won in 3 months, but decided to stay over there for an extra 10 years because war is profitable for many.
What an ARS CLOWN! They think a bank routing number is gunna fix this.
A short-term solution, to a long-term problem.
But we as a community hold more power, than any single person on top.
Because we're the ones signing their paycheck.
Free trade will solve the issues. Disaster capitalism is a band aid, a way to get through hard times and it's important. But there is real action to create new technologies and solutions to our energy and agriculture and construction industries. Even population growth is slowing, which is key, since we've bred far too quickly, beyond the need for human power to run a modern life. Humans are slow to adapt to the changes they introduced.
Why is private firefighting even a discussion, while private health insurance apparently is not? Watching from Europe, this all is so confusing and seems fundamentally wrong.
I don't like socialism. It slows down development.
wtf did america expert after looting african people years and years ,you taught the cry of their ancestors was going no where, george floyd has brought the fall of america God is punishing you guys and you will never rise again the rest of the western world all going to fall after america
And if there’s no disaster, they’ll make one
Ah. yes. Bla bla bla. They just make more and more money, and will take it with them.
Move and live in Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, China, full socialist (all government control countries) and check if it will save you. Good luck! By the way. California is the most socialist country in USA.
What USA did to Iraq, Mother Nature will do to USA over the next few decades. Of course, to all other countries as well, but USA is particularly vulnerable with a western desert, a mid-western tornado alley and coastal mega cities on which the economy depends.