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Re:Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge... by InitialLastName on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:35AM (#25418705)
It's almost like we live in a world that's reeling from the externalities of unfettered global capital. No need to end it, just need to break the tragedy of the commons that makes it so cheap to cause global problems.
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Re:Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge... by gnusty_gnurc on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:51AM (#25418886)
"fettered" capital has a long history of ecological disasters too...

https://socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices/ecological-di...

In fact the above link doesn't even mention the whaling atrocity:

https://earthtrust.org/savethewhalesintl/homepage/busting-pi...

My point being - clearly capitalism isn't the cause of ecological ruin.

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Re:Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge... by InitialLastName on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:34AM (#25419486)
Pretending that the only options are two extreme ends of a solution scale isn't operating in good faith.

Clearly, capitalism isn't the only possible cause of ecological ruin. In this case, however, it appears to be allowing _everyone involved_ to shirk the responsibility to pay for the damage they cause.

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Re:Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge... by gnusty_gnurc on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:23PM (#25421123)
I’m not pretending those are the only options - I’m saying that in a nominally anti-capitalist country, they wrought massive ecological destruction.
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