The trouble being that telling folk the only solution is to destroy capitalism is a hard sell at the best of times, and in April 2023 capitalists could point to any number of initiatives to show how they were “making progress.” Unconvincing to someone who is disinclined to look past 50 years of excuses, lies, vacillating and half-hearted compromises, perhaps, but enough for your average liberal who really wants to believe someone else can sort it all out while retaining, roughly, the status quo.

Just two years later, though, Gelderloos’s predictions that capitalism would be unable even to maintain its existing lacklustre efforts towards reducing carbon emissions, let alone deepen them, are worth returning to.

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In fact, between the ultra-capitalist dream of crypto markets and this dystopian sci-fi hellscape of tech bros’ imagined Nazi artificial superintelligences, you can pretty much write off the entire benefit from solar and wind as having been sucked up into an exercise filling the internet with a more convincing type of garbage.

That’s what capitalism, in the post-pandemic world, has actually done regarding the one big ecological issue that it said it was going to fix.