Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Drew Hansen

....Human activities are behind the extinction crisis. Commercial agriculture, timber extraction, and infrastructure development are causing habitat loss and our reliance on fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change.

Public corporations are responding to consumer demand and pressure from Wall Street. Professors Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg published Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations last fall, arguing that businesses are locked in a cycle of exploiting the world’s resources in ever more creative ways.

“Our book shows how large corporations are able to continue engaging in increasingly environmentally exploitative behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and worsening environmental destruction,” they wrote.

Yale sociologist Justin Farrell studied 20 years of corporate funding and found that “corporations have used their wealth to amplify contrarian views [of climate change] and create an impression of greater scientific uncertainty than actually exists.”....

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44178.htm

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[berningman]

1. well its off to a wonderful start nr

[ladjf]

2. The policies and processes that have been used by the very rich are

as depraved as anything the Roman Empire did. Millions of people are being literally starved to death . with many more to come by
the greed of the super rich.

Just as the Roman Empire fell, so will the fascist Capitalism crumble, but no before human suffering of unparalleled proportions are wiped from the face of the Earth.

Mega Collapse is Nature's way of restoring balance.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. Many Many Thanks

Great Post!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. You're quite welcome.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. 2050?

Sounds optimistic.