Kohei Saito

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_04217.html

‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan ... The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth ... In practical terms, that means an end to mass production and the mass consumption of wasteful goods such as fast fashion. In Capital in the Anthropocene, Saito also advocates decarbonisation through shorter working hours and prioritising essential “labour-intensive” work such as caregiving ... “We face a very difficult situation: the pandemic, poverty, climate change, the war in Ukraine, inflation … it is impossible to imagine a future in which we can grow the economy and at the same time live in a sustainable manner without fundamentally changing anything about our way of life ...

Japanese scholar looks to Marx's theory to explain pandemic, climate change - https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1921/