DOES CAPITALISM HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE?

Abstract

The paper points out that the causes of the climate chaos we have reached are the capitalist imperative of accumulation and the decades-long turn towards the ideology of the free market. Thus, thinking about the cause of the climate crisis refers to the neoliberal model of capitalism, that is, to the model of unlimited consumption and depletion of environmental resources. In order to prevent the deepening of the climate catastrophe, an alternative economic plan is necessary at the national and global level, the coordinated action of major powers, that is, state interventionism as an alternative to the deregulated market of neoliberal capitalism. This alternative economic model would initiate the transfer of financing and technology on an unprecedented scale. Scientific and technological progress in the service of sustainable development and changes in the techno-economic paradigm that changes value systems in all spheres of economy, state and society. Economist Jozef Schumpeter called this evolutionary process creative destruction, in which old values, knowledge and capital are destroyed, and only those knowledges that are connected with innovations will survive and increase their value. Entrepreneurship, new technology and a strong state. These are key concepts for new sustainable growth. However, the demand for economical use of resources and recycling still lies in the maximization of utilization, which represents another testimony of capitalism's ability to take over ideologies that are apparently opposed to it. Hence the need for "thinking work" that will establish a new policy and global strategy and direct global humanity towards new alternatives to hegemonic capitalism.