14-07-2009, 01:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-07-2009, 01:23 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Rampant capitalism is not a sustainable practice and needs to go the way of the dodo.
Rabid may be a better term than 'rampant'. Yes, Environmental Scientists are realizing, along with all the other environmental per se problems, that Capitalism is NOT sustainable and is antithetical to a sustainable environment for humans and all living things. Jensen addresses this [see threads here on Jensen], as do others. Capitalism - especially the American Corporate varient specifies one must always grow to even break-even. We live in a finite world, with finite resources and space and we are toying with a dominant economic system that only lives on endless growth ,and even an endless increase in the rate of growth (and resourse use/waste production). Something has to 'give'....it will either be capitalism or life on the Planet - choose one. :damnmate:
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass