DU POLL: Will Capitalism as we see it today eventually fail?

[Selatius]

17. We won't end capitalism. Mother nature will shut it down for us.

When the gas runs out and when the resources are depleted, we'll either change or die. Regardless of what happens, likely, a few billion people will die before the whole of humanity accepts change, and it'll likely be the poorest billions that die first. It'll be wars fought over depleting resources and wars fought over economic policy.

The current economic model of continuing growth in an environment of finite resources will deplete planetary resources. We live in a crisis and do not know it's a crisis. I fear we'll only change after the planet is trying to kill us off.

By then, global warming will be at catastrophic levels. The Arctic Ice will be gone; droughts will hit once wet areas destroying farmland; whole species of animals will die under the stress; the rainforests will likely be logged to death at that point; and the oceans will have risen a feet or several, flooding major coastal cities that haven't prepared. New Orleans 2005 was just a taste.