Economic System Change or Climate Change

If neoliberal capitalism is on track to trigger catastrophic and irreversible climate change, what are the alternatives to it?

A Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action seminar at Queens University Belfast on the 27th June 2023 with Robin Hahnel, veteran activist and scholar, on how we should think about and respond to ecocidal and climate destroying neoliberal capitalism.

The workshop focused on the following questions:

1. Is neoliberal capitalism on track to trigger catastrophic and irreversible climate change?
2. Is there an alternative economic system which would no longer do so, but instead, prevent climate change, adequately protect the natural environment forever, and still allow economic wellbeing to increase indefinitely?
3. Does this mean that the solution to “climate change” is “economic system change,” i.e. to replace capitalism with an appropriate version of “eco-socialism?”

Robin Hahnel is an American economist and professor emeritus of economics at American University. He was a professor at American University for many years and travelled extensively advising on economic matters all over the world.