We all know that the nature of capitalism will prevent halting climate change, but what's often understated is there's been a particularly sinister cultural phenomenon within capitalist political economy which goes a step further to limit action:
*the cult of professionalism*

Firstly the cult of professionalism assumes expertise by an appeal to authority. The problem with this is that authority is typically conceptualised not in recognition of knowledge and understanding, but by one's position in conventional (typically corporate) hierarchy (1/n)

Directors and execs are embraced as the spokespeople to shape policy to mitigate climate change. Such people typically have little knowledge of climate change themselves and the committees they engage with subsequently become echo chambers of ignorance (2/n)

These people also have a vested interests which lead them to seek out "low hanging fruit" rather than meaningful change. Action that is superficially noticeable but operationally easier to carry out becomes the preference. Such actions typically have little impact (3/n)

The second consequence of an appeal to professionalism is an increasing depoliticisation of climate change. Reducing emissions becomes a technical exercise regarding the precise use of science and technology, and structural drivers of emissions are not considered (4/n)

It should be fairly obvious why this is problematic. Climate change *is* political; it is driven by the profit motive of capitalist political economy and sustained by political interest in profit. Depoliticisation is itself a political process that protects said interests (5/n)