American Seances

This episode applies Karl Marx's analysis to the climate crisis, arguing that capitalism's drive for endless accumulation turned nature into an input and created the planetary-scale emergency we face today.It unpacks concepts like the metabolic rift, ideological denial, and class-based responsibility, critiques market-based fixes like offsets and green capitalism, and explains why Marx would call the crisis the system doing exactly what it was designed to do.The episode concludes by presenting Marx's alternative: collective control and democratic planning of production and energy to align social needs with ecological limits.