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12. Closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 12:53 AM
Dec 2012

Capitalism will destroy civilization as we know it.

It is too bad. Humans have evolved to the level where we can put men on the moon and travel to the depths of the ocean, but we cannot rein in wacko, greedy capitalists or wacko, corrupt politicians.

We can map the DNA of living creatures, but then allow the most ignorant, selfish people to patent nature for profit thereby releasing environmentally destructive forces.

Moreover, we have global climate change deniers, massive pollution, a "global economy" headed for a meltdown, not to mention problematic nuclear reactors, and there are not a lot of reasons to be optimistic.

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