Capitalism is destroying our planet

Beststash · Mayor's Aide Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 76

Capitalism creates economic crises. It also creates ecological degradation. Capitalism is a system that reshapes and reconstructs nature - and destroys the environment while doing so. The thirst for profit makes environmental damage inevitable.

Capitalist firms pollute water, air and soil. Their farming methods have little regard for nature. They introduce chemicals without adequately assessing their impact on the environment, on humans and on other animals. They introduce drugs into the food chain and create disease-resistant organisms.

The culture of the car drains non-renewable fossil fuels and metals and creates gases that cause ecological damage. Global warming is increasing faster than we thought. Destructive climate changes are likely in the next decades.

Our economic policies have weakened and/or removed environmental regulations. The most powerful governments in the G8 agree that climate change is a problem caused by human activity - but they have no plan to tackle this crisis.

If current trends are not reversed, the damage capitalism has created to the entire biosphere on which we depend may be so great the planet will never recover.

Under capitalism, the road ahead is not unfettered prosperity for all. The future is capitalist barbarism - more oppression and exploitation, more poverty and inequality, more war and destruction. The environmental crisis is but one facet of a nightmare future.

The basic choice facing humanity: socialism or barbarism.

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

Captalism and free markets are the cornerstones for all human economic prosperity. As the 20th century so aptly demonstrated, gov't controlled economies are abysmal failures...communism, marxism & dictatorhsips all produced high levels of poverty, zero gdp, disease, civil unrest, low educational levels & revolutions.

By every account I've read, communism killed more human beings(100 million) in a single century(20th) than any other force known to man since recorded history. When gov't dictates market conditions, the markets fail.

Even today's democracies that practice socialism have terrible economic growth...not a one can show above 3% GDP...Britian, France & Germany can barely muster 2.5% growth...Germany has gone negative numbers off and on. Meanwhile, the U.S. shows between 3.5% & 5% routinely...we have the healtiest economy in the world...the world envies us.

The only way societies increase their standard of lviing is through the free market processes of capitalism. Only fools or communist ideologues would even attempt to argue otherwise in the face decades and decades of continuing prosperity that free markets and capitalism have provided.

Why is it that the lib-left clowns who call for the elimination of captialism still live in and enjoy the benefits of countries where capitalism is practiced??? Go live in Cuba, China, Viet Nam, etc...see what happens to your standard of living...none of you lib cowards would dare give up the benefits of capitalism & free makets...hypocrites...go live the anti-capitalist life you want the rest of us to live.

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

marvinbighead · Congressional Page Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 22

Capitism is not sustanable and can only come to one conclusion,ie uninhabitable land that will gradualy increase and deserfie .It seemed like a good idea at the begining ,but time has showed us its too extreme.its nature is dog eat dog.In its early days it can hide this by sharing some of the wealth that it quickly accumulates,but as the eco system starts to go its true nature comes to the fore,ie dog eat dog.The very last dog will run around a barren earth untill he too sucumes to the toxins....Capitism is a giant piramid scheme,last ones in pay everything.

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

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Seaside · Congressional Page Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 10

Pure capitalism results in a system with an exponentially increasing percentage of the wealth being held by an exponentially decreasing percentage of the population. Few live in incomparable decadence, the majority in poverty.

Pure socialism results in a system within which efficiency and productivity are sacrificed for the illusion of the common good. Little gets done, and even less is transferred to the common people.

Ultimately, the best system is a mixture of the two, protected by multiple checks and balances. The economic well-being of the common people needs to be artificially held above the level of poverty at which a person cannot survive, but efficiency is kept alive with a competitive market. Regulation ensures safe products but does not result in a great number of barriers.

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

JT · Congressional Page Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 35

Neal · Congressional Page Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3

Points to USSR, North Vietnam, North Korea, China (which has had MASSIVE environmental problems, mainly due to their communist economy), East Germany

I could go on for hours. Shall I stop?

Note: I only joined these forums to respond to your ridiculous ideas.