FFS 036 - Chicken Nugget Capitalism

The end of Capitalism is nigh. Or we should certainly hope so.

Raj Patel makes a convincing case for the urgent need to think beyond capitalism if we are to move towards a carbon zero economy.

“Let us recognise that the system itself is dooming us and that we need to think outside it rather than within it” – Raj Patel.

If this sounds revolutionary, that’s precisely the point.

Raj and I discuss:

• Why we shouldn’t call this era the “Anthropocene”

• What Capitalism actually is

• The frontiers of Capitalism and the search for the next best “cheap thing”

• The Chicken McNugget: the symbol of modern capitalism

• The Market Approach: Carbon pricing, Natural Capital, and voting with your fork

• Thinking beyond Capitalism: a Theory of Change to get us to a carbon zero economy

Links:

• Raj Patel’s Website and Twitter

• Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System– Raj Patel

• The Value of Nothing– Raj Patel

• A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature and the Future of the Planet– Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore

• The Secret Ingredient Podcast– Raj Patel, Tom Philpott, and Rebecca McInroy

• La Via Campesina Website

• Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Agrarian Farming in California– Julie Guthman

• The New Food Activism: Opposition, Creation and Collective Action– Alison Alkon & Julie Guthman

• A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat– Eric-Holt Gimenez

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