The president of Colombia scapegoated capitalism as the driving force of climate change. He suggested an alternative form of 'de-carbonized' capitalism, however, may save it.
The President of Colombia suggested that the form of capitalism dominant for the past few decades could ultimately destroy the environment and cause the extinction of humanity.
Colombian President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego spoke at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland about how modern capitalism may doom humanity. Petro discussed other members of the panel about how the planet is reaching"a point of no return' in regard to combating climate change. "[We] talk about policy and politically correct discourses when we know that the statistics mean that we are reaching a point of no return?" Global experts including former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore on stage at the World Economic Forum."Can the capitalism that we have known in the last 30, 40 years overcome the climate crisis that capitalism helped create?" he rhetorically asked.
"The capitalism that we know nowadays has a driving force and logic, and that is to increase our profits in such a way, and that’s how we talk about history to regulate everything without political or social boundaries," he warned."That’s the one we have. This has resulted in some sort of global anarchy."like"coal, oil and gas" are used to maximize profits,"and this has resulted in a change in our atmosphere.
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