Thursday, August 08, 2019
The End is Nigh
Scientists tell us that 99% of all species that have arisen on Earth have become extinct — humans should be no exception to this tendency. Mass die offs and extinctions are especially associated with habitat degradation and climate change. The world economy is a capitalist one and capitalism must continually expand and find and exploit new markets as well modernize its means of production — it is not a choice that people can make about this, it is a requirement of the system and will continue to be so until the system implodes. Just as herds of cattle that over graze and run out of food die off because grazing is what they do, so our current system will lead to a mass die off of the human population and a collapse of the capitalist system after the habitat that sustains it is degraded and can no longer allow us to graze (depleted oceans, soils, and fresh water supplies, plus new diseases due to overuse of antibiotics in agriculture — all this driven by the profit motive intrinsic to capitalism). We can watch it and bemoan it but unless capitalism is overthrown we can do nothing about it as the profit motive will frustrate all our attempts. Socialism or Barbarism. Join your local CP or carpe diem!
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