The climate crisis calls for an immediate capping – not decapitating – of capitalism by Jeff Rudin, Daily Maverick May 3, 2021 The climate crisis calls for an immediate capping – not decapitating – of capitalism by Jeff Rudin, Daily Maverick May 3, 2021 “The simple fact is, if the climate crisis is not going to bring on the collapse of modern civilisation, the world will need an entirely new economy.” This beginning to a recent Daily Maverick article by Kevin Bloom serves to remind us of the enormous progress made in the foregrounding of climate change. From a beginning of, at best, just being recognised, it has progressed to increasingly being seen as a global crisis. This, despite the best efforts of the fossil fuel industry, the investors who live off that industry and the politicians who defend both.