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ladyVet

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44. To agree that this is what's coming for us could be called tin foil hat conspiracy.

Sun Dec 28, 2014, 08:43 AM

Dec 2014

But I think it's more like a cold, harsh truth. The only thing that can stop it is natural disaster, economic disaster, or people getting on their feet with pitchforks. Which would probably go unnoticed or written off as kooky lefties by the corporate-owned media.

It makes me sad to realize that I'm watching the human race destroy the planet when we know better. We don't have to go down this road. We don't have to make our citizens ignorant and compliant with the destruction of our environment. But money talks. Maybe what ever follows us to the top of the food chain will have more sense.

I was watching a rerun of a show called "Prophets of Doom" yesterday. One of the speakers was talking about how there are five billion more people than the planet can sustain, almost all the population growth due to the discovery and use of fossil fuels. With peak oil a done deal, what's going to happen to all those people when the bottom falls out and they can't get food so easily? Ain't going to be pretty. But if the survivors are smart, they'll build a better world afterwards.

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Rebecca Solnit: The Age of Capitalism is over [View all] xchrom Dec 2014 OP

k and r and thank you for posting. niyad Dec 2014 #1

... xchrom Dec 2014 #2

Highly misleading title. I wish the title were true but, if anything, the periodic KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #3

Perhaps 2naSalit Dec 2014 #5

"Capitalism is ending. To find out more, buy my book!" Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #20

Heh. branford Dec 2014 #26

I'll buy that... 2naSalit Dec 2014 #51

Thanks for posting 2naSalit Dec 2014 #4

If King George had had Fox "News" and hate radio, we'd still be flying the Union Jack Doctor_J Dec 2014 #6

Indeed. The nonstop medIa propaganda and psyops hifiguy Dec 2014 #11

My Own Quote Dirty Socialist Dec 2014 #7

K&R. This should be today's top story on DU. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #8

K&R.... daleanime Dec 2014 #9

Every time I see someone saying that I wonder - where to from here? We seem to be heading to jwirr Dec 2014 #10

At this point we are too far down the rabbit hole. hifiguy Dec 2014 #12

Thank you for the honest answer. And unfortunately that is exactly what I fear. And I have assumed jwirr Dec 2014 #13

Have you read about this? Boreal Dec 2014 #32

To agree that this is what's coming for us could be called tin foil hat conspiracy. ladyVet Dec 2014 #44

make it so. NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #14

Inspiring story NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #15

If voters in Richmond voted against Chevron, it's cuz Chevron has been shitting on them for decades. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #21

I didn't notice solnit taking credit, I noticed her reporting. I also noticed you have some kind of NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #22

I dont know why, since the refinery catches on fire every few years. Do you know anyone who actually Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #25

I think my writing is fairly straightforward. NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #28

As is mine. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #30

Welcome to DU Caretha Dec 2014 #50

If Rebecca Solnit is worried about climate change, maybe she should stop trying to force Google Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #16

can you explain what you're talking about? NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #18

Happy to. She was a big poop-bah behind the SF protests trying to shut down the google commuter Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #19

all i see in your article about solnit is that she wrote a newspaper article about the buses. NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #23

Uh... Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #24

those aren't the link you gave me and i'm really not in the mood to read 4 links now to see if one NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #27

Every time there was an article about those goofy protests, they interviewed her first. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #29

if so, maybe because she's well-known and had already written the first article? maybe because NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #31

I didn't say it was secret. I said it was goofy. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #33

Well, I agree that she's Boreal Dec 2014 #35

that, and cronyism. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #37

She didn't say it. So, "full of shit" is just perpetuating the misunderstanding here. ancianita Dec 2014 #41

Agree that "the age of captalism is over" is sweeping. NOWHERE does Solnit claim that. ancianita Dec 2014 #38

And if anything is going to move the human race off of its primary energy source, it's a Salon Op-Ed Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #39

And I say that your discrediting a writer based on an editor title, or the writer's tackling Google ancianita Dec 2014 #40

Right, whatever. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #42

That her writing can weather your criticism I'll agree with, however humble you claim it is. ancianita Dec 2014 #45

When the true master completes the great work, the people say "it happened of its own accord" Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #46

Solnit's work against Google brought attention to many levels of injustice in SF, ancianita Dec 2014 #47

Fair enough. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #48

Read your first link Boreal Dec 2014 #34

Crap, man, tell me about it. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #36

Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #17

... xchrom Dec 2014 #43

Capitalism doesn't need to die. It just needs to shrink a little. dawg Dec 2014 #49

One of the things about capitalism is that it can't shrink. rogerashton Dec 2014 #52

Not true. dawg Dec 2014 #53

If the electorate has the ultimate say, rogerashton Dec 2014 #54

The Scandinavian countries generally do a fine job of regulated capitalism. dawg Dec 2014 #55