All rolling.
Right here, right?
My job is to scare you, that's all.
Is capitalism sustainable?
If you understand that the central defining
feature of capitalism
is that it is a system for profit and about profit,
then I think my answer is yes.
But then when you ask a separate question,
what does capitalism do to the environment?
What does it do to people?
What does it do to jobs?
Then you raise the question of whether 
capitalism is going to be tolerable.
If we talk about capitalism, we have to talk about
it as a social system,
and that's going to involve a very difficult conversation 
because in order to do something about that,
you have to impede its intrinsic tendencies,
impede its tendency to reduce costs and dump the 
rest on society and the environment,
to cut jobs and assume that someone else
will pick them up.
On one hand, it produces us wealth,
on the other hand, it erodes many things that
we generally consider to be worth having,
such as community, such as place, not to mention
jobs and a future for many people,
certainly for younger people.
We are at a juncture where we are facing this issue,
and we face it in the politics of every country in the
world today,
in Europe, in Asia, and certainly in the United States,
where the cleavage is between those who think that
we want more of this unfettered system
and those who say, no, it's gone too far.
What are the alternatives?
Can we construct ways of living that take advantage
of some of the better qualities of the system,
and on the other hand, don't permit the side effects
that pile up as it bulldozes its way through history.
The future is not given, it's not been decided.
And what we do, and how we do it,
and how we connect up to people who are doing it,
decides the future.
