Very interesting talk from Timothée Parique at ChangeNow. These 16 minutes are worth of your time to get a clear picture of the new economy we need because yes, "green capitalism is a story we tell to avoid changing the system." And it’s a toxic story if I may.
I loved the sharp questioning of the corporate structures and I’m happy these words have been formulated at ChangeNOW, which is also a very capitalistic event. Thank you for this.
The start of the conference stoke me a bit because it says that "with the words we have we are incapable to imagine a world beyond capitalism". Is this really true ?
When it comes to imagination Philip K. Dick did. Ursula Guerin has. Rob Hopkins is doing so. I did (yes, today, I’m not very humble, sorry). In France, les Editions La Mer Salée are doing it, Flore Vasseur Jean-Pierre Goux obviously and there are obviously so many more artists imagining this world beyond capitalism.
We have used old words and we’ve all imagined something else. The thing is, as Hervé Kempf very rightfully stated it in an old book, that capitalism has attempted to destroy the language for the sake of marketing.
We have all the words in the world already and it’s also great to forge new ones, of course. And hopefully these new words will make new realities more and more visible.
Because a few million people are embodying post capitalism daily with these old words (I’m thinking of Navdanya, one among many). The thing is that governments and lobbie’s greed and corruption are what’s preventing the vision to spread, not the lack of imagination.
I personally find it much more empowering to tell people that they can imagine another world and that this world exists already, instead of stating to boldly that we can’t, or not without the help of new words.
