About this Event
Venue: Booth Street East, Room G.02.
Climate change is usually treated as a problem for governments to solve, through carbon taxes, international treaties, and top-down regulation. This approach is slow, dependent on political agreement across dozens of countries, and frequently arrives too late.
This event proposes a different starting point: consumers. Every business that survives does so because consumers choose to buy from it. The moment they stop, the business fails. Consumers are the real foundation of the entire market system, yet they hold no ownership stake in what they sustain and have almost no say in how it develops.
This two-hour morning discussion explores what it would mean for consumers to claim the economic position they already occupy. We will look at how a buyer-led market would respond to climate risk differently from today's profit-driven financial system, why transparency and genuine cost accounting would reduce waste that the current system has no incentive to cut, and how ordinary people can begin to shift the terms on which the market operates without waiting for any parliamentary vote.
The Atlantic Ocean circulation system (AMOC) may collapse within the lifetimes of people alive today. When it does, Europe will be unable to feed its current population. Recovery would take thousands of years. The market system that currently governs how resources are allocated has no structural reason to account for this. A market owned and directed by consumers does.
No prior knowledge is required. The session is open to anyone curious about climate, economics, or the relationship between the two.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Booth Street East, Booth Street East, Manchester, United Kingdom
USD 0.00
