Climate change is evidence of the death-wish of capitalism (Climate Freak tells the Truth)

Green Leaf ^ | April 26, 2014 | By Renfrey Clarke

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If modern industrial capitalism were a person, he or she would be on suicide watch. The system that has brought us quantum physics and reality television, modern medicine and the columns of Andrew Bolt is set on a course which, by all the best reckoning, points directly to its doing itself in.

If capitalism goes on — everything goes. Climate, coastlines, most living species, food supplies, the great bulk of humanity. And certainly, the preconditions for advanced civilisation, perhaps forever.

Moreover, we’re not just talking risk, in the sense of an off-chance. These are the most likely outcomes for capitalism’s current policies and performance in the area of climate change.

Rulers in the capitalist world are not remotely contemplating action on the scale needed to contain the crisis.

The timelines of climate catastrophe are long, and in capitalism’s systemic suicide it is not, on the whole, today’s corporate chiefs who are fated to perish. Theirs is strictly a proxy death-wish. The brief, unhappy lives and early graves are to be the lot, mostly, of future generations.

As the renowned American philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky put it recently, “In the moral calculus of capitalism, greater profits in the next quarter outweigh the fate of your grandchildren.”

All the more reason for working people, who have no stake in the survival of capitalism, to consign the system to the historical dumpster.

[hinckley buzzard]

Dr Renfrey Clarke is a qualified and highly experienced editor, a journalist and a specialist in international studies

In other words, a self-appointed public intellectual who has no known field of expertise, yet knows everything, while understanding nothing.

[Balding_Eagle]

Rulers in the capitalist world ..........

The first part of that is at odds with the second part.

[William Tell]

From the article: “In the moral calculus of capitalism, greater profits in the next quarter outweigh the fate of your grandchildren.”

How about:
"In the immoral calculus of liberalism, greater deficit spending in the next decade outweigh the fate of your grandchildren."

[Democrat_media]

Global warming is just another fake crisis that democrats created to grow government(grow socialism) and to enslave us. democrats also invented the global warming hoax to destroy capitalism

If you made $100,000 per year after taxes then you could buy anything you could ever need in the free market because someone would produce it for money( look at the millions of products for sale on Google , internet , ebay , amazon,Walmart, Dollar Tree etc etc). So we don’t need government for ANYTHING. A private company created a whole city DISNEY WORLD in Florida. So democrats create fake crisis like “global warming”,”no health insurance crisis” to justify the very existence of government and the continued growth of government(socialism)

government is the enemy and the problem. the news media and democrat party are also the enemy and the problem

I’m proud to be a climate denier : come and get me you communist Obama and communist democrats

[Blue Collar Christian]

Leftism, or, let’s be honest, fascist socialism, is preached by elites that will be above the law, and supported by losers. It can only prevail at the expense of eliminating liberty, or as we know it, capitalism.

Any theme the leftist can cling to in order to justify their vilification of capitalism will do, truth be damned.