Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
Because capitalism itself is difficult to imagine.
Most people struggle to define it.
Its champions disguise its true nature.
So let's imagine something easier: the end of concentrated wealth.
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After all, capitalism is the means, concentrated wealth is the end.
Capitalism is the tool used to concentrate wealth.
Inequality drives the collapse of Earth systems.
The impacts of the wealthy and the companies they control are massively greater than those of ordinary people.

Let’s focus on what is tangible: the extreme inequality pushing us towards destruction, while simultaneously causing grostesque social injustice.
Let’s demand wealth taxes high enough to break the spiral of accumulation and create a fairer and greener society.

Wealth taxes are greener than carbon taxes.
Carbon taxes address just one aspect of our full-spectrum assault on the living world. They are an end-of-pipe solution that can also be highly regressive.
Wealth taxes strike at the heart of the issue.

Then ... we use the revenue from wealth taxes to build an alternative to capitalism. The model I favour is Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury.
Other models are available.