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Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050
By Drew Hansen
....Human activities are behind the extinction crisis. Commercial agriculture, timber extraction, and infrastructure development are causing habitat loss and our reliance on fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change.
Public corporations are responding to consumer demand and pressure from Wall Street. Professors Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg published Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations last fall, arguing that businesses are locked in a cycle of exploiting the worlds resources in ever more creative ways.
Our book shows how large corporations are able to continue engaging in increasingly environmentally exploitative behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and worsening environmental destruction, they wrote.
Yale sociologist Justin Farrell studied 20 years of corporate funding and found that corporations have used their wealth to amplify contrarian views [of climate change] and create an impression of greater scientific uncertainty than actually exists.....
Public corporations are responding to consumer demand and pressure from Wall Street. Professors Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg published Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations last fall, arguing that businesses are locked in a cycle of exploiting the worlds resources in ever more creative ways.
Our book shows how large corporations are able to continue engaging in increasingly environmentally exploitative behaviour by obscuring the link between endless economic growth and worsening environmental destruction, they wrote.
Yale sociologist Justin Farrell studied 20 years of corporate funding and found that corporations have used their wealth to amplify contrarian views [of climate change] and create an impression of greater scientific uncertainty than actually exists.....
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Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 (Original Post)
Mr_Jefferson_24
Feb 2016
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berningman
(144 posts)1. well its off to a wonderful start nr
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. The policies and processes that have been used by the very rich are
as depraved as anything the Roman Empire did. Millions of people are being literally starved to death . with many more to come by
the greed of the super rich.
Just as the Roman Empire fell, so will the fascist Capitalism crumble, but no before human suffering of unparalleled proportions are wiped from the face of the Earth.
Mega Collapse is Nature's way of restoring balance.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)3. Many Many Thanks
Great Post!
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)5. You're quite welcome.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)4. 2050?
Sounds optimistic.