What comes after Capitalism? Identifying the correct answer to that
question, one I do not pretend to know, in addition to facing the fact
that the question is a life or death one- on a global scale, is a basic
requirement for the life, liberty, and happiness of the human race.
The financial system is nearing another crash, like the sub-prime mortgage crash of 2007 and 2008, writes Steve Rushton at Occupy.com in his report summarizing a recently published European Green Party paper, The Price of Doing Too Little Too Late.
Rushton outlines how investors, pension funds and banks are so
heavily invested in companies that earn money by destroying the planet
that when the actual wake-up call comes, when the alarm clock goes off
and the climate change deniers and their corporate blood sucking
psychopaths who pay for the propaganda that enables climate change
deniers to pretend that there is still a debate to be had over the
Apocalyptic course that human induced climate change has us on– when
those people and those beliefs that together want to extract fossil fuel
reserves when we KNOW that if the human race is to survive we must
leave at least half of current fossil fuel reserves in the ground if not
three quarters- when, all the Sean Hannity’s, and Sarah Palin’s and
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma – he who, parenthetically it should be
noted, likes to quote quotes Genesis 8:22 (While the earth remains,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night,
shall not cease”) and added, ”God’s
still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we human beings
would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me
outrageous” – when Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow all these aiding and
abetting murders meet the fate of all our yesterdays that have lighted
fools the way to dusty death and we wake collectively from our slumber
brought on by the gears and the levers that operate the odious machine
and we become so sick that we can not take part, even passively take
part, and we come together like old flattop grooving up slowly to
indicate to the people who own this capitalist machine that unless we
are free, this machine will be prevented from working at all and we
transition on a massive global shift towards more sustainable energy
practices occurs, that funds with heavy carbon exposure- and that number
is 95% of all global investment according to the study- will face a
shock, that in fact, the carbon bubble will burst and bring own the
global financial system.
Ok, that may have been a run on sentence.
To sum up: The economy will crash again, according to Rushton,
because we are so addicted to constant growth, and quarterly capitalism
that the global financial elite will march us to the edge of the 2
degree climate cliff just to squeeze some more profit from the products
and systems that are killing us.
So add one more obstacle to slow the glacial pace (and I mean that in
the pre-climate change era of the word) of a coordinated global effort
to get the human race untied from the train tracks before the locomotive
that is a 2 degree rise in global temperature: our inability to ditch
the written and unwritten rules of capitalism.
Put that in your feedback loop and smoke it.
By Dennis Trainor Jr from here
Can anyone direct this guy to the World Socialist Movement - I think he might understand what we have to say.
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