Can Capitalism Save the Planet?

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I took part in this debate host­ed by Intel­li­gence Squared Aus­tralia (an ini­tia­tive of the St James Ethics Cen­tre) last month. I was on the oppo­si­tion side, along with Paul Gild­ing and Kate Jen­nings; the gov­ern­ment posi­tion was put by Lucy Turn­bull, Ross Git­tins and Geof­frey Cousins. Details on all the speak­ers are avail­able here, as is a video of the entire debate from begin­ning to end. In this post I’m repro­duc­ing this video in bite-sized chunks–9 min­utes for each of the speak­ers (plus a 2 minute sum­ming-up peri­od), plus the audi­ence dis­cus­sion that includ­ed a cou­ple of Debt­watch stal­warts.

I’ll open with my two con­tri­bu­tions, and then repro­duce the entire debate in chrono­log­i­cal order below that.

Steve Keen speech

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Steve Keen sum­ming up

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Intro­duc­tion by the Chair, Dr Simon Longstaff, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of St James Ethics Cen­tre

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Lucy Turn­bull speech

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Paul Gild­ing speech

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Ross Git­tins speech

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Steve Keen speech

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Geof­frey Cousins speech

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Kate Jen­nings speech

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Lucy Turn­bull sum­ming up

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Paul Gild­ing sum­ming up

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Ross Git­tins sum­ming up

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Steve Keen sum­ming up

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Geof­frey Cousins sum­ming up

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Kate Jen­nings sum­ming up

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Ques­tions

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Ques­tions con­tin­ued

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