Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

On the death cult of capital accumulation

“A Harvard University study estimated that the worst fires in decades in 2015 were linked to more than 90,000 early deaths. The fires that year are also believed to have produced more carbon emissions in just a few months than the entire United States economy.”   Inside the destruction of Asian’s last rainforests

Prevention Before Cure

How just one country and 9 products contribute to deforestation

A liberal view that doesn't answer the questions: How could capitalism, a system based on profit and capital accumulation, protect nature? Could capitalist production develop technological means to maintain both: private accumulation and safe eco-systems? Could that happen without exploitation and obscene inequality, and with continuous growth? We are seeing some movement towards green transport, for example. To what an extent though such a movement could be extended to encompass the major global industries without at the same time jeopardising the rate of profit? Will states be able to impose new ways of production in a system where private owenership of such industries reign? Or, will states themselves carry out a change in investing in green and sustainable ways of how we produce, eat, and move? Coronavirus is a warning to us to mend our broken relation with nature . Who's "us"? "Us" implies that we are all responsible and we should work together...

In English and French Covid-19 and circuits of capital Covid-19 et les routes du capital

  Nature fights back

Only a rational economy can stop the devastation of nature An economy that abolishes the private ownership of the means of producing wealth and finance, and combines democratic production, distribution and consumption.

Capitalism's violence (against nature, against us)   Plundering Cambodia's Forests

The rising tide

Capital expansion has no religion "The treatment of the Rohingya is sometimes described as a crime against humanity. But we need to interrogate its sources. If we bring in some of the larger trends affecting modest rural communities, two major facts stand out. One is the far larger numbers of Buddhist smallholders who have also been expelled from their land in the last few years. And the other is the fact that large-scale timber extraction, mining, and water projects are replacing the expelled." Is Rohingya persecution caused by business interests rather than religion?