This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is the price is wrong why capitalism

won't save the planet by Brett Christopher's. What if our understanding of

capitalism and climate is backwards? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive,

but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable?

While prices of solar and wind power have tumbled, the golden era of

renewables has yet to materialize, the return on green investment is still too low.

We cannot expect markets to solve the climate crisis while the profits

involved remain unappetizing. There is an alternative to providing surrogate green profits

through subsidies.

Take energy out of the private sector's hands.

This is Brett Christopher's case and the price is wrong, a book as politically far-reaching as it is factually illuminating, a book

that Theo-Frankos calls, quote, a masterful work of political economy that zeros

in on a major obstacle to addressing the climate crisis in the context of capitalism.

The price is wrong by Brett Christopher's out now from Versin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the fifth episode of Thawora, the Digs new series on 20th century

Arab politics with historian Abdel Razak Tikriti. Thawara is Arabic 4 revolution. It's a word that contains historical multitudes, diverse

political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arablands over the past century.

Thus far, each episode of our series has taken a region-wide view,

zooming into national or local history,

but keeping this broader frame within view, as we chronicled

the consolidation of European imperialism, the coalescence of a mass politics which would oppose

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