Climate capitalism: can market-based solutions save the planet?

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  Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Good evening everybody.

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  As people are still filing in, but I'll make my introduction.

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  Welcome to LSE, everybody,

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  for this public event hosted by the Ralph Miliband Lecture Series called Climate Capitalism Can Market-Based Solutions Save the Planet.

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  My name is Jonathan Hopkins.

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  I'm a Professor of Comparative Politics in the European Institute here at LSE.

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  I'm very pleased to welcome you all and our online audience here in the Shakespeare lecture theatre for this discussion with our guests who very kindly agreed to come and talk this evening.

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  So Professor Brett Christopher's, Benjamin Brown, my colleague in the European Institute, and Daniela Gabor.

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  I'll introduce them briefly in a sec.

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  So we're going to be addressing this question of whether capitalism can solve a crisis of its own making.

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  You might quickly get a sense of how the panel feels about this question,

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  but we're looking forward to really thought-provoking discussions,

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  and after the presentations we'll be able to have some Q&A, some debate,

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  both from questions from the audience here in the theatre, but also online.

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  So yeah, just some brief introductions to our speakers.

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  So Brett Christopher's on my left is Professor of Human Geography at the Institute of Housing and Urban Research in Uppsala University.

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  He's the author of The Price is Wrong, his most recent book,

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  although has one come out in the meantime because Brett is extremely prolific.

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