Evo Morales: "Save the planet from capitalism"

[subsuelo]

November 28, 2008 -- Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately 60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth suffer; the extinction of animal and plant species; and the spread of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases.

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Competition and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet. Under Capitalism we are not human beings but consumers. Under Capitalism Mother Earth does not exist, instead there are raw materials. Capitalism is the source of the asymmetries and imbalances in the world. It generates luxury, ostentation and waste for a few, while millions in the world die from hunger in the world. In the hands of capitalism everything becomes a commodity: the water, the soil, the human genome, the ancestral cultures, justice, ethics, death … and life itself. Everything, absolutely everything, can be bought and sold and under capitalism. And even “climate change” itself has become a business.

“Climate change” has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

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[ananda]

1. Yes indeed.

Save us from narrow corporate mindthink.

I like Morales.

[bemildred]

2. Competition kills.

Cooperation creates.

[readmoreoften]

3. Idiotic disfunctional system

Only works if you think human life is less valuable in the global east and south.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Wow! What a beautiful statement! Viva, Evo!

In Ecuador, they put Pachamama (Mother Nature) into the Constitution with an independent right to exist and function properly--a Constitution just passed in Ecuador with nearly 60% of a national vote.

It's clear what the children of the Earth want. But can our deluded overseers be curtailed? Open question. Planet Earth will not go down with a fight, though. That, too, is clear.