Finance Capital and Climate Change: The Role of Climate Interested Investors

         Below is a video I recorded of Griffith University Sociologists Dr. Georgina Murray and Dr. David Peetz examining if it is possible within the logic of finance capital to have some groups or sub-class of the transnational capitalist class that can be focused toward the longer-term, whereas the great drive in financialization over recent decades has been toward increasing emphasis on short-termism (I.E. short term profits). The research here points to the contradictions of global capitalism, emphasizing the detrimental impact it is having upon our planet.

         Once the main lecture in the video begins (after the intro) at around 2 minutes and 33 seconds, you will need to turn the volume up significantly. This talk was given in June of 2013 at the "Global Capitalism in Asia and Oceania conference" at Griffith University in Brisbane. This was the 2nd conference of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC). For more information see:http://netglobalcapitalism.wordpress.com

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

Here is the keynote talk (that I recorded on my computer) of Professor William I. Robinson at the 1st "Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation" conference in Prague, Czech Republic in September of 2011.


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全球化的双重危机：从墨西哥湾到亚利桑那

杰布 斯普拉格（Jeb Sprague）& 西赛尔 罗德里格斯（Cesar Rodriguez) 。

从漂浮着絮状原油的墨西哥湾，到发生针对移民袭击事件的亚利桑那，如今我们的国家似乎正处于一种持续的紧张状态。而对于在全球化进程中居于核心地位的我们来说，这两则事件都能在我们社会的基本结构中找到其更为深刻的原因。

四月二十日，距离路易斯安那海岸五十英里远的英国石油公司（BP）海上钻井平台发生了爆炸事故，从而导致十一名工人丧生并引发大量原油从海底喷涌而出，这次原油泄漏事件是美国历史上最为严重的一次。而仅仅在三天后，亚利桑那州州长简•布鲁尔就签署了针对非法移民的第1070号新决议法案，要求州警核查一切有非法移民嫌疑的移民的法律地位。尽管这两件事看似毫无关联，但是在一个认为资本的积累远比人的生计和生存环境更为重要的价值体系内，考虑这两者如何复杂的进行相互作用就显得极为重要。

Dual Crises of Globalization: Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico

Transnational Institute
Jeb Sprague and Cesar Rodriguez

From the plumes of corporate crude in the Gulf of Mexico, to the assault on migrants in Arizona, the U.S. appears locked in a continual state of emergency. However, both crises have their roots in fundamental structures of our society that are at the core of globalization today.

The explosion on April 20th at BP’s offshore drilling rig fifty miles off the coast of Louisiana led to the worst oil spill in the country’s history, killing 11 workers and unplugging an oil gushing vein in the sea floor. Just three days later, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into Law SB 1070, which requires state police there to check the legal status of anyone suspected of being undocumented. While seemingly unrelated events, it is important that we consider how the two are intricately connected within a system that values the accumulation of capital over the livelihoods and survival of people and the environment.

Sociologist Leslie Sklair has described two central crises in the era of globalization: (1) a class polarization crisis with the “creation of increasing poverty and increasing wealth within and between communities and societies;” and (2) an ecological crisis with “the unsustainability of the system.”