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WestMichRad

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1. The Nightmare Logic of Scarcity Capitalism
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 08:51 AM
Oct 2018
https://www.alternet.org/capitalisms-final-solution-nothing-less-complete-ecological-collapse

Hey, there's money to be made! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!!

From the Alternet article:
The Editorial Board of theWashington Post writes that future “Historians will look in absolute astonishment” that not only did our governments and corporate elite fail to halt climate change, but that our policy makers “actually pushed in the wrong direction.” That’s assuming that there will even be any historians left after the climate change horseman of pestilence, famine, war, and death gallop across the scorched and burning world, their riders named “Deregulation,” “Bottom Line,” “Market,” and “Profit.”

Perhaps the human species deserves extinction if we can clearly see the coming problems that will cause catastrophic change to the planet and yet fail to prevent their occurrence.
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