Re:Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” ...
by jshen on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:53PM
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It’s clear you have an ax to grind against the term capitalism which is quite uninteresting. Environmental degradation is not limited to, or primarily occurring in, capitalist societies unless you define the term so weirdly as to be meaningless. Economic growth to a significant degree has been decoupled from resource usage, and population growth is not solved: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population
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Re:Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” ...
by aussiesnack on Saturday October 08, 2022 @08:34PM
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> It’s clear you have an ax to grind against the term capitalism
I have no idea what that means. I think you're mixing up political/policy punditry with descriptions of how the physical world actually works. The two are different (and often only very vaguely related).
> Environmental degradation is not limited to, or primarily occurring in, capitalist societies
Not relevant here (as it's not a claim I make).
> Economic growth to a significant degree has been decoupled from resource usage
Not even close, and 'resource usage' isn't the salient concept here.
> population growth is not solved
Population growth drops, (perhaps too far - to below replacement), everywhere with decent social security and health provision (where the latter includes birth control).