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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:33 AM Original message |
Morales: 'The Central Enemy of Mother Earth is Capitalism' |
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slackmaster
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Douchebag |
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amborin
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
50. ad hominum attack: bashing the messenger does not negate the message |
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slackmaster
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Fri Apr-23-10 09:40 AM Response to Reply #50 |
71. The man is obviously a demagogue |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. He is correct. |
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Dr Morbius
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. It is not capitalism which is at fault but unregulated capitalism. |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:26 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I agree with you. |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
60. Capitalism is the problem . . . it's intended to move the wealth and natural resrouces ... |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. that's debatable. Take a look at the environmental degradation in the the former U.S.S. R. |
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wuushew
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Don't you feel that modern China is probably doing more aggregate damage to the Earth |
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Fumesucker
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
32. Both of which are strong examples of the most predatory forms of capitalism these days.. |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. sure, but I'm referring to the massive environmental degradation |
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Fumesucker
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Thu Apr-22-10 02:42 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I'm not unaware of it.. |
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amborin
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Thu Apr-22-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
51. ussr was state capitalism |
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readmoreoften
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:09 PM Response to Reply #51 |
70. +1 |
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OneTenthofOnePercent
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. That's rediculous. |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. It is "ridiculous". |
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OneTenthofOnePercent
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Why do people sell stuff?... because people buy stuff. |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Are you familiar with how |
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OneTenthofOnePercent
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. So the solution is to, technologically, revert back to pre-industrial cultures? |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:04 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. Arrogance is what you preach. |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
61. Peak oil may do all of that in the not so far future . . . |
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azul
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
4. We should be preparing for when Mother Nature shrugs, |
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marmar
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
5. I knew I liked Morales..... |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. Right and it was the wealthy developed capitalist nations |
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ThomWV
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. What an absurd proposition. |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Naomi Klein agrees with him. |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Naomi Klein? So what? |
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amborin
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
47. not absurd, but rather the truth |
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ZeitgeistObserver
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. He also says chickens cause baldness and gayness. |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
62. Obviously, Morales isn't so far from wrong on those poisons, as well -- !! |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. um, could it possibly have anything to do with population? |
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ShortnFiery
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. Morales is spot on. Same as it ever was .... Check out this quote from 1890? |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. you and various other people on this thread seem to be sadly ignorant |
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whattheidonot
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
35. less |
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amborin
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Thu Apr-22-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
52. USSR was state capitalism; and China is capitalist; it's authoritarian capitalism |
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Scruffy1
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Thu Apr-22-10 05:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
56. It hasn't changed |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
63. Interesting . . . the open secret ... that every generation has to learn for themselves!! |
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marmar
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. Free market un-rec'ers gone wild !!!! |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:13 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Lol. Yep |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
15. He's an idiot who obviously never went to Soviet-era USSR or the Eastern Bloc. nt |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
34. The Soviet Union is not blocking real reform. n/t |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:46 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. They're just dumping nuke waste into the Arctic, etc. How's that for reform? |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 02:12 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. The Soviet Union no longer exists. n/t |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:56 PM Response to Reply #36 |
67. US dumped nuclear waste into the Pacific . .. |
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The2ndWheel
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
16. It would be easy if it was just one thing |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. stop thinking in complex terms! |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
25. Yes - although the only road to Socialism is through Capitalism |
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AnArmyVeteran
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Cool picture... Who is it? |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Velvet Underground and a young Edie Sedgewick |
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EFerrari
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Thu Apr-22-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
54. That's not actually true. Many native cultures on this continent |
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Taverner
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Thu Apr-22-10 04:58 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. It's a Ricardian Socialism thing |
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MellowDem
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
26. No, it's humans... |
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wuushew
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. where is steady state capitalism being practiced? |
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MellowDem
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
49. This is somewhat true... |
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alarimer
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Thu Apr-22-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
27. Human beings are the enemy of mother earth. |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Some humans were able to live in harmony with the earth. |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
41. wow. My dear old dad the anthropologist would laugh his ass off |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 02:54 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Really? |
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cali
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. that has nothing to do with modern capitalism. |
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tabatha
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Before the white man arrived and introduced his capitialism |
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proteus_lives
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Thu Apr-22-10 05:26 PM Response to Reply #48 |
57. "The whites destroyed the native americans, who also had an extraordinary culture. Period" |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
66. Agree . . . and overpopulation is a huge problem now . . . |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
64. Patriarchy/Organized patriarchal religion are the enemy of nature/earth . . . |
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SemiCharmedQuark
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Thu Apr-22-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. Actually it's modern medicine. If more humans died of common diseases like the good old days, we'd |
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amborin
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
46. also here: |
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anigbrowl
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Thu Apr-22-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
53. I don't agree with him, but wish him luck with it |
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tomm2thumbs
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Thu Apr-22-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
58. greed - ie. capitalism without boundaries |
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Naturalist111
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Thu Apr-22-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
59. Materialism drives Capitalism |
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defendandprotect
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Thu Apr-22-10 10:55 PM Response to Reply #59 |
65. Capitalism drives Materialism . .. |
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Warren DeMontague
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
68. He 'allegedly' gave that speech. It could have been done on a sound stage in Area 51. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin
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Thu Apr-22-10 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
69. The central enemy of Mother Earth (as related to global warming) is the combustion of fossil fuels. |
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