{"id":22044,"date":"2025-04-22T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/2025\/04\/climate-natural-resources-and-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:21:27","slug":"climate-natural-resources-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/2025\/04\/climate-natural-resources-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate natural resources and capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">the necessary farewell to infinite growth<\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>We are honored to host this article published in A Fuoco&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.a-fuoco.it\/abouthttps:\/\/www.a-fuoco.it\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news letter<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saramanisera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sara Manisera<\/a>, an experienced journalist and documentary filmmaker, who brings into focus one of the founding paradigms of our association.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/https___substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_4a3e7d79-b5ca-4fbc-a9ea-c4e06413e118_1344x256.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21857\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>When people talk about the climate crisis, they rarely mention the big elephant in the room: the economic system. Yet the functioning of capitalism itself, based on the primacy of unlimited production and accumulation, is inherently unsustainable, as it breaks the &#8220;metabolisms of life,&#8221; writes Japanese philosopher Sait\u014d K\u014dhei in his book<a href=\"https:\/\/www.einaudi.it\/catalogo-libri\/scienze-sociali\/economia\/il-capitale-nellantropocene-saito-kohei-9788806260088\/\">&#8220;Capital in the Anthropocene<\/a>,&#8221; and condemns society to a dead-end future. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Indeed, the economic, cultural and political framework of liberalism and growth at all costs is characterized by the absence of limits and a &#8220;culture of sufficiency and sobriety&#8221;: everything is based only on the maximization of profit and the factors of production, particularly labor, capital and nature.When people talk about the climate crisis, they rarely mention the big elephant in the room: the economic system. Yet, the functioning of capitalism itself, based on the primacy of production and unlimited accumulation is inherently unsustainable, as it breaks the &#8220;metabolisms of life,&#8221; writes Japanese philosopher Sait\u014d K\u014dhei in his book<a href=\"https:\/\/www.einaudi.it\/catalogo-libri\/scienze-sociali\/economia\/il-capitale-nellantropocene-saito-kohei-9788806260088\/\">&#8220;Capital in the Anthropocene<\/a>,&#8221; and condemns society to a dead-end future. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.a-fuoco.it\/p\/clima-risorse-naturali-e-capitalismo?utm_source=substack&amp;publication_id=1825743&amp;post_id=159845828&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;utm_campaign=email-share&amp;triggerShare=true&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=izthp&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clima_afuoco.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21850\" style=\"width:667px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clima_afuoco.jpg 840w, https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/clima_afuoco-480x344.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 840px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As early as 1972, scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on a commission from the Club of Rome sounded the alarm with &#8220;The Limits to Growth,&#8221; highlighting the risk of economic and environmental collapse if measures were not taken to limit unsustainable growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450],"tags":[5577,3848,3897,5580,5579,5578],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-networks","tag-capitalism","tag-climate","tag-climate-crisis","tag-economic-system","tag-liberalism","tag-unlimited-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22045,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions\/22045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}