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In reply to the discussion: If you really think the environment is less important than the economy ... [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)which is what the OP suggests. You're saying we should change it. Fine. I don't disagree. But the OP's premise is that the economy is not important (or at least, it's not as important as the environment). Of course it's important, whether you support the current system or oppose it. And it needs to be paid attention, in one way or another, at the same time as we pay attention to the environment. There will be an economy, of some sort (capitalist, socialist, market, fixed, barter), no matter what you think of it, and it is not an insignificant factor in our social existence.
That was my point, with which I can see you generally agree: we need to pay attention to both the environment and the economy. It's stupid to say one is not "as important."