Margot lives in Turin, she studies psychology at the university and writes a blog about ecology. Her generation is the first, in the history of her country, to live in worse conditions than her parents' generation: lower access to safe and dignified work, adequate medical care, free and pluralistic information. When Margot's mother was twenty years old, a manager's salary was 45 times higher than that of an employee. Today it is 650. Margot breathes worse air and eats more contaminated food. Every year, her country faces extreme climate events, such as avalanches, droughts or floods. Every day, 140 Italians die prematurely due to air pollution. Margot is twenty years old. It's not her fault if the world turned out this way, but she wants to be part of the solution. The pandemic, new wars and new crises convinced her to transform her blog into a documentary: Decapitalism, an investigation into the functioning mechanisms of capitalism, the alternatives to this system and how to achieve them.
Unlimited growth on a physically limited planet is impossible. Yet the economic system we live in does not seem to want to confront this truth. The climate crisis has been a scientific reality for at least forty years and has been the most discussed topic by global public opinion for a decade. Most governments have ratified environmental protection agreements, and millions of companies are promoting green shifts. Yet global CO2 emissions are at a historic high, the demand for fossil fuels is steadily increasing, and 2023 was the hottest year on record. We are racing toward climate collapse, the sixth mass extinction, praying that the solutions to this crisis will come from the very system that caused it: capitalism. But in the face of such a colossal problem, what can an ordinary person do?Decapitalism seeks the answer to this question through the eyes of a twenty-year-old girl. The “David versus Goliath” that, sooner or later, each of us will have to confront.
Davis Alfano (Color Correction);
Margot Rosso, Luca Mercalli, Carlo Cottarelli, Thomas, Piketty, Luciana, Castellina, Fatemah, Sultan, Renata Allìo, Giorgio Brizio.