I totally agree with President Morales. Capitalism eats up resources in search of profits, it is a catalyst for climate change.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Capitalism harms planet - Morales

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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Al Gore has a solution to all this: buy green credits from him!

And all other government/economies do not harm the environment? No. It isnt capitalism or any specific economy.

Society as a whole, and human nature, and advancement/progress is the real root of the problem. We all (in every country) want to accelerate and advance to live better lives, be the most powerful, whatever, but in so doing we will always sacrafice the environment to our will to grow beyond our limits. We need to SLOW DOWN, and stop expanding everything so fast. Every year if a thousand people need to make a thousand new products and make a thousand new factories, or clear a million acres of trees...or clear out more forest for farmland to feed our overpopulated planet---that is what is destroying the environment.


Capitalism promotes expansion and growth as a means of survival...so i could see why that would cause one to think this way...but other types have done the same. Unless the entire society of the world were to be unanimously changed and controlled, then this inevitable clash between humanity and nature is always going to occur.

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As long as the fire burns we shall never be free..." (The Shadows of Yavara, Final Reclamation)

Resources are over consumed by the capitalists pushing for profit. A command economy can prevent this. Capitalism never will.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I'm not 100% sold on this.

Let's not confuse capitalism with consumerism. One can have a modest capitalist system with good regulation that does help control spending because public funds are poured into social projects.

It's wealth that produces consumers - and what you're saying with your words is that capitalist countries are wealthier. Pro-capitalists will jump on that as evidence that socialism is a failure economically (conveniently ignoring controls that wealthy countries place on poorer ones regardless of eithers economic system).

Consumerism, fueled by poorly regulated corporate interests (which do generate wealth) is rampant. There's a few good books about this "Affluenza" is what it is dubbed.

Take consumerism out of capitalism and what have you got left?

What a load of rubbish!

What about Communist China who has destroyed their natural environment that nobody will ever drink it?

You really think China is a Communist country?

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Does anyone remember the widespread ecological wastelands found in eastern europe after liberation in the late 1980s? And the huge tracts of land made permanently unihabitable by Chernobyl - was that due to capitalism?

No, it was due to fascism.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.