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In reply to the discussion: I'd love to believe that the global crisis we're facing is all capitalism's fault. [View all]hunter
(38,303 posts)17. The exponential growth of an innovative species always ends in some kind of wreck.
This sort of thing has happened often in the history of life on earth. Humans are not anything special.
We could land softly, with a healthy stable sustainable population, without all the flames and drama and messy death, but I'm not sure humans are actually intelligent. Maybe we are some kind of proto-intelligence, but even that seems less and less likely every day now.
An intelligent species, even one with a very dim sputtering spark of intelligence, would not destroy the natural ecosystems it depends on for its own survival.
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I'd love to believe that the global crisis we're facing is all capitalism's fault. [View all]
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
OP
Well, I respectfully disagree. The scarcity anxiety is caused by capitalist systems and memes.
ananda
Oct 2013
#4
Humans are greedy, I don't care if all you are doing is trading fur for potatoes. People will find a
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2013
#7
No, doing what I talk about won't change human nature or the physical situation
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
#9
To say that technology can't rescue us from a problem the technology created is
el_bryanto
Oct 2013
#14
The exponential growth of an innovative species always ends in some kind of wreck.
hunter
Oct 2013
#17
Profits are a risk-weighted return on assets; if assets don't grow, profits don't grow.
FarCenter
Oct 2013
#27
I'm so glad I have hope, and do something to nurture it within a realistic framework.
OneGrassRoot
Oct 2013
#23
I think the energy of capitalism can be harnessed to rebuild, renew and recycle. nt
CJCRANE
Oct 2013
#30
Yet it's not the socialists giving up and drinking bleach just yet. nt.
Starry Messenger
Oct 2013
#42
"It employs, directly or indirectly, all 7.2 billion people on the planet." = NOT
MindMover
Oct 2013
#57
You think those people working in agriculture are not indirectly employed by the system?
GliderGuider
Oct 2013
#58