Is climate crisis really an economic threat?

Bertie speaks to Ståle Holgersen about his new book 'Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World' and the relationship between ecological and economic crises.
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“The capitalist system is necessarily built on creating ecological crises.”

Bertie speaks to Ståle Holgersen about his new book Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World, in which he argues that, contrary to popular economic thought, economic crises are not triggered by ecological ones but rather the capitalist economy benefits from ecological crises. 

Bertie and Ståle discuss the ways in which crises are defined, the drawbacks to arguments for degrowth and the potential solutions to the climate crisis.

Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Stockholm University and a member of the Zetkin Collective, an ecosocialist group of scholars and activists primarily working on the political ecologies of the far right.

Against the Crisis was published last month and is available to buy from Verso here.

Audio engineering by Vasko Kostovski.

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