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How to Save the World
There should be no doubt that capitalism is to blame for the rapidly escalating cataclysm we now find ourselves in.
Rampant extraction and production on a planet with finite resources is leading to a series of interlinked crises, of which climate change is the most serious. It seems that those driving forward this insane agenda have no intention of stopping. At the same time, the system is maintained because enough citizens in the developed world are either benefiting from the current system or are sufficiently apathetic and in thrall to consumerism to go along for the ride.
Those who truly hold power over society have likely factored in and accepted the costs of what they’re doing. They are now building fortified homes, re-purposing underground bunkers, buying tracts of land in New Zealand; in effect they’re pulling up the drawbridges and gambling that their wealth and power will insulate them from the worst effects of what’s to come.
It won’t.
Yet appeals to self-interest will not work with a class of people who already have all their interests catered to. It should also be perfectly obvious by now that scientific, moral, even economic reasoning, will not suffice to alter our current dystopian trajectory.
What’s to be done then? I obviously haven’t a clue really but my opinion is that capitalism as a…
