What is capitalism?
The first products produced industrially were textiles. This required cotton grown in the Amerikan south (stolen land) with enslaved laborers (stolen labor). The thefts of land and labor preceded the Industrial Revolution by many decades, which transformed the double theft into a triple theft by introducing the theft of sunshine.
Better known as “fossil fuels”, these materials store energy produced by photosynthesis over hundreds of millions of years. Burning them in 250 years in effect adds the fury of those suns to our current moment in geological time.
Stolen land, stolen labor, stolen sunshine. What began in Amerika was mirrored in Europe–– peasants forced off their lands, left with no option but to sell their labor-power, the only commodity they had to exchange, on the all-consuming market.
Stolen land, stolen labor, stolen sunshine. Raw materials produced with stolen labor on stolen lands, assembled with stolen labor assisted by stolen sunshine–– this led to exponential economic growth, a cancerous explosion which now encircles the globe.
I would like to redefine capitalism as this triple theft.
Thus, anthropogenic climate change is an inevitable consequence of what Marx called "so-called primitive accumulation".