Listen to a reading of this article:
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible get to just stay in power indefinitely and suffer no meaningful consequences of any kind.”
~ John F Kennedy (paraphrased)
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Ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. No possible iteration of capitalism can address this problem. This, in and of itself, is a sufficiently strong argument that capitalism must be abandoned.
No model where human behavior remains driven by profit can address the problem that ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. That’s why so many capitalism proponents are reduced to simply pretending that ecocide isn’t a problem.
Eco-consciousness and anti-capitalism go hand in hand, but the liberals are dominating environmentalist discourse while the commies frequently neglect it. This is a strategic and moral error. This is the strongest argument against capitalism, and it’s one which needs to be made.
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It can take a while for a principled antiwar leftist to learn that in the big picture they have very little in common with so-called progressives who mostly ignore US imperialism and just want the empire to forgive their student loans. The difference between a leftist who opposes capitalism and empire and your average Bernie Sanders progressive is considerably greater than the difference between your average Bernie Sanders progressive and your average MSNBC Clintonite.
None of this means progressives can’t be worked with on points of convergence, it just means they’re ideologically different and it serves no one to pretend otherwise. The same is true of antiwar right-libertarians. Ultimately there’s commonality wherever class interests align.
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I’m as distrustful as anyone of the new mainstream UFO narratives, but when congress is saying UFOs are a threat that is “expanding exponentially“, it probably deserves attention. I don’t know why they’re saying it, but they’re not saying it for no reason. There’s an agenda here, whether it’s weaponizing space or running cover for new military technology or just securing more money for the military-industrial complex. I’m not willing to commit to any position on what exactly they’re up to, but they’re clearly up to something.
Not many people from my sector of the political fringe are looking at this, and I think that’s partly because there’s so much uncertainty and partly because it doesn’t really fit into any of our models for understanding the world. But whatever it is, it’s worthy of at least some attention.
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The more information that comes out about the effectiveness of psychedelics in treating psychological trauma the more outrageously criminal it looks that these medicines have been suppressed for generations while the world was being destroyed by a highly traumatized species.
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We’ve all had the experience of wanting to change something undesirable about our behavior but not being able to. This happens because the forces driving that behavior are not yet conscious. This is what’s happening with the self-destructive behavior of humanity as a whole, too.
There’s a misconception in our society that people stop their self-destructive behavior when they apply “willpower”, which is really just empty head noises. Actually people change when there’s an expansion of consciousness. That’s what we’re waiting on with the human species too.
That’s ultimately why we’re destroying our planet despite knowing it’s bad for us. We can talk all we want about capitalism, corruption, empire and ecocide, but underneath it all what we’re really looking at is the struggle of a thinking species to become a conscious species.
So for me the answer to the “what can we do?” question is usually, expand consciousness. Spread awareness of what’s going on in the world, expand our consciousness of what’s going on in ourselves, anything you can do to bring awareness to previously unconscious important matters.
And people are already doing this. That’s all healthy activism generally is: people working to spread awareness of an important issue. That’s also what real journalism is, it’s what real political dissent is, and what authentic spirituality is. It’s all about expanding awareness.
Working toward a healthy humanity is essentially the task of strolling through the dark hallways of our collective unconscious and flicking on the lights, one by one. It’s not easy, but the more lights get switched on the more awake people there will be helping us switch on the rest of them.
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61 responses to “Capitalism Has No Solution To Ecocide: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”
Consumerism is the coal in capitalism’s steam engine.
While we’re waiting for our consciousness to inflate, would anyone like to consider not buying new crap all day every day? Well then, fuck you very much, and have a nice day.
Caitlin,
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This is a topic I think of often, thanks for bringing it on point. I don’t yet know of a good alternative solution. We have “ownership” and the claim on it always boils down to state violence in some form or another. Given these facts, I guess exploitation is a logical consequence (after all, if something is owned via might-makes-right, and maintained through the same violence, how likely will the owners ultimately do anything but abuse and exploit the owned thing?). These are very close to root causes of many of society’s problems.
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The only thing more ‘root’ might be examining humans’ responses to scarcity of resources.
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Jonathan
“Ecocide will continue as long as ecocide is profitable. No possible iteration of capitalism can address this problem. This, in and of itself, is a sufficiently strong argument that capitalism must be abandoned.”
I have seen this argument many times … that capitalism is the main culprit behind environmental destruction. Unfortunately, it is nothing like that simple. For example, compare the environmental impacts of Soviet Socialism with American capitalism. Both were quite destructive. If you disagree, I’d urge you to consider the condition of the Aral Sea post-sovietism, Chernobyl, incredibly wasteful vehicles and ships produced by the SU compared to the west, wholesale clearing of land for various ill-thought agricultural “plans”, etc..
The problem is not the “ism” that happens to rule. The problem is a lot of us humans desiring a better standard of life and ingenious nature of our monkey brains providing it: more to eat, more places to go and ease of life. Technology is helping us live longer, richer, better lives … at the cost of the environment. Perhaps we’ll grow beyond it … perhaps not. But ending capitalism, were it even possible, won’t do it either way.
let’s test it to be sure.
It’s been tested … SU and China are pretty good tests. Have they provided an example of environmental success to base hope on?
Maurice Strong’s suggestion of creating world poverty is not a sane solution:
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“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
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Capitalists are afraid of real progress, otherwise, we would be enjoying the benefits of Nikola Tesla’s inventions today. Profit has always stood in the way of a more effortless way of life for all. Most people do not want the gluttonous lifestyle of the wealthy and look upon it as a sickness.
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The obscene waste of natural resources caused by capitalism’s need to create artificial scarcity, planned obsolescence, weapons of war, billionaire fantasy projects and extravagant lifestyles is staggering:
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Is Capitalism Actually Efficient?
“Most people do not want the gluttonous lifestyle of the wealthy and look upon it as a sickness.”
I don’t know about “gluttonous” but really? Most people don’t want what the rich have? Most people don’t want houses of their own, plenty to eat, nice cars and electronics, etc. etc.? How many people have you asked, may I ask?
Most of the people I know, in the “west” and in what used to be called the Third World want all these things … and therein is our issue.
You are confusing the economic system providing the goods and services demanded by the public with the demand. The latter would exist under any economic system.
Capitalism does have solutions; and here’s a short list of accomplishments:
J.P. Morgan, Paul Warburg, (et al. in cabal at Jekyll Island) create Federal Reserve (1913) to print fiat (can facilitate endless war and enrich privateers.)
1953 Iranian Coup d etat: overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh (RE: Iranian oil royalties, etc.) Capitalism employs the use of subterfuge, propaganda, violence, etc., to destabilize and plunder sovereign countries’ resources.
Bill Clinton: “I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Clinton told an audience at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual meeting in Philadelphia. “And I want to admit it.” (CNN – 6/15/15- Dan Merica – RE: crime bill – 1994)
“Expose the Slaveholders”: Activists Disrupt For-Profit Prison Corp. Meeting (commondreams.org-4/29/15-Nadia Prupis)
Capitalism acts like cancer. It grows unceasingly with complete disregard for humanity or nature. For example, countries like Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, are ostracized and denied social relations with the rest of the world through mafia-like maneuvers of blackmail, deception, threats, intimidation, and segregation (9/1/22-multipolorista.com-J.R. Hermeto)
The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform: Private Insurers and Big Pharma (globalresearch.ca-8/21/09-Stephen Lendman)
The anti-reset of Serbia (making it whole again) is making the empire go nuts. Bill Clinton must be hanging out with Biden in a daily basis “If you let Serbia to fix the Balkans backed up by Russia, all hour payments for terrorists and mafia will be lost. The collapse of the Balkans is my legacy alongside NATO expansion.”
Macron is asking to Vucic to make hard decisions to let Kosovo to be independent and consolidate NATO actions over the last 30 years in the Balkans.
Bravo and slow clap. Great stuff.
Besides being athletes, what other coincidence did they have in common recently? Why did they die?
Is it Just a Coincidence They All Took the COVID-19 Experimental Vaccine? (cleverjourneys.com – 12/5/21 – Texans Jack and Dodie)
What is “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome?” Why is it happening? Can we prevent it? What can we do?
Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS): The Latest Word Game to Cover Up the Millions of Deaths Following COVID Shots (thewashingtonstandard.com – 6/11/22 – Tim Brown)
Why were drugs, such as: Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, suppressed?
Video: Dr. Nass’s Orwellian Nightmare: Med License Suspended for COVID “Misinformation” (globalresearch.ca – 3/2/22 – Dr. Meryl Nass and Kristina Borjesson)
Are there agencies/corporations (these are only people), in our midst, committing treachery?
CDC Allows Hospitals to Classify Dead Vaxxed People as “Unvaccinated” (globalresearch.ca – 10/3/21 – Crack Newz)
Could our “Ruling-Class” be involved in activities construed as treason?
Chris Hedges: The Treason of The Ruling Class (Popularresistance.org – 6/1/20 – Chris Hedges)
Profit decides what gets made and profit wants more stuff made and sold. A vicious circle.. With money in charge people suffer.
“There’s a misconception in our society that people stop their self-destructive behaviour when they apply “willpower”, which is really just empty head noises. Actually people change when there’s an expansion of consciousness. That’s what we’re waiting on with the human species too.”
There are only two motivations : seek pleasure or avoid pain.
People change their behaviour when a better alternative comes along or when the current behaviour becomes too painful.
If we want to change the world’s behaviour we have to offer a better alternative. Nonsensical threats about seas rising in 400 years time, or silly nonsense about temperatures increasing are ridiculous. Yes if you scream it loudly enough and often enough there are plenty of fools who will go along. People want to feel important so idiots join Extinction Tomorrow or whatever they call themselves and feel good that they get attention.
It is ridiculous.
If CO2 increases then the world will get much greener and trees and all plant life will thrive. London will be like Rome, Rome like Athens, and Athens like Mecca. How is that the ‘end-of-the-world’? We may even be able to grow grapes in Newcastle like the Romans did in 300 AD.
Every prediction by the alarmists has been proven not only wrong but hilariously wrong.
Club of Rome predicted that the world will run out of 20 critical resources by 2000. We have more now than was known in 1950 when the report was started.
We have more species of mammals, insects, plants and fish than at any time in the known history of the world. Each year the list gets longer not shorter, and yet great projects are cancelled because a ‘Lesser Throated Warble Tit” MAY be inconvenienced.
The rulers use fear and greed to rule the world, as they are much greater motivators then love and hope.
If you want to change the world, then at this time only a greater fear or a more realistic opportunity for greed will work. EG UFOs, Climate Change, Covid, Monkey Pox, “TRUMP”, MAGA fear or MAGA ‘everything will be OK’, ‘we will wipe away your debts’ etc.
The Western world is so screwed up with a cognitive dissonance so deep, that ‘Doublethink’ is the language of 90% of the population.
It is going to take an apocalypse so great and trauma so deep so painful that reality cannot be ignored, before the remaining population will stare it in the face.
It may come in this generations lifetime.
The overwhelming evidence that there is intelligent life in ‘outer space’ is the fact that, so far, none of them have attempted to get in touch with any world leaders.
Maybe they were in the galaxy neighbourhood, looked over the back fence, and went “..yeah… nah… we”ll come back in another millennia, or two.. just to see how they’re getting on.”
Perhaps they did look over the back fence and saw that we were only at the capitalism stage of economic growth. Shook their heads sadly. “Will they never grow up?”
Obviously the US has made the assumption that intelligent life in a far off place will be socialist… and therefore a threat.
According to former president of the EU, they got in touch with him!
https://exopolitics.org/european-commission-president-says-he-spoke-to-leaders-of-other-planets-about-brexit/
Commenters still don’t know what to make of it except for saying it was probably a slip of the tongue, which it definitely was… not as is immediately obvious from the video to anyone understanding French!
America and UK New Deal for 2022 Winter
UK PM – Rising living costs could prompt an increase in burglary and blackmail, police chiefs have reportedly warned us.
Biden – It is not a big deal. We are plenty of batons, German Sheppards, tear gas, bullets. People will get used to it.
Police – We are running short in staff to keep the order.
UK PM – Calais and Dover are crowded. Let’s pick up some of them with experience.
BIden – Luckily you. We can’t do that with Mexico. Too many starving XC’s generation there (“cucarachas”)
UK PM – People will burn a lot of logs to not die frozen. 100 years ago was not that much but now every year forests will have to razored to the ground to keep warm our iced bog country.
Biden – I’ll send Fauci to help you. In the worst scenario I’ll call the Walmart to let the people warm up there in business hours.
UK PM – How they gonna eat?
Biden – Jesus… It is a supermarket. Give 5% discount for any purchase. Women will love it. They love it here. Impossible the rest of the world don’t be like us.
UK PM – You are right. It is settled. Thank you.
BIden – My pleasure.
Are you saying “ Many hands make light work “
I say Trump is a “Judas goat”
UFO’s? see “Operation Bluebeam”
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Mark Zuckerberg makes 69,444 USD per… second! When do you come up with that kind of deal?
Capitalism is funding ecocide, to them it is just collateral damage in their unsatiable greed for power.
(capital = money) + (ism = system) = capitalism = money system. The central feature and source of awesome power for capitalism is the debt based private global monetary system we have been made dependent on.
Capitalism is a parasite on the back of free enterprise, the two are often and wrongly conflated. Every household, business and government in this world is in debt to and dependent on the banking system.
Nations need to reclaim their sovereign right to issue debt-free money, the most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance, and reclaim their resources for the general welfare of their people.
Any government that does not control its money is controlled by those who do and is an oligarchy, it cannot be a democracy. Money is power embodied in law and thus to claim democracy it must be made a public function.
You made me a cyclops unicorn? Love it, love you guys.
Ecocide is no more collateral damage than genocide, they’re both intensional.
Good bless you! I’m in Texas in the raging heart of the madness, your writing is my IV drip of sanity.
Good… God… I’ve got long covid, my brain is sheer fog. *Goddess bless you!
As usual diplomacy for Washington may be a terrorist word. Chile is just preparing the procedures to make a new constitution and the White House, CIA, FBI, Coast Guard, Space Force are already in high alert for doomsday. US embassies are hotels for spies, decoration and that is it.
Let’s make an agreement about the level of bullshit around. Ecocide exists for capitalism, socialism, communism. Let’s try another plausible approach to not get caught as idiots mumbling nonsense.
Socialism or barbarism. We have barbarism. We need socialism.
But there is light!!!!
Obama just got an Emmy Award Prize as Outstanding Narrator in “Our” National Parks. Someone should notify those countries. Any misunderstanding is misinformation.
I think capitalism emerged as the oligarchic money changers realized that their most profitable investment was in government. Their money creation privilege (capitalism translates to ‘money system’) gave them control of the various industries and government, which allowed them to pursue war profits funding both sides of the conflict and with the power to decide who wins. Socialism and communism emerged as a response to the industrial exploitation of people and place but they are inadequate responses I think because they both embrace industrialism and do not recognize that money is the key to power. The most vital prerogative of democratic self-governance is to issue the money for the common good as its ‘first use.’
The study of UFOs, lately rebranded UAPs, is fast becoming the purview of govt experts. Soon , as with Covid, the vast pool of internet “tin foil hat” UFO researchers, that same vast pool who have been studying and writing excellent books on UFOs since the 1940’s, the same group who are not being consulted on UFOs by the way, will be censored, criminalized and perhaps even jailed as the govt makes it “safe” to only follow its, the govt’s, preferred UFO reporting. Yup. This shift stinks.
At least, that much is certain! And also the fact that the government’s preferred reporting will involve a degree of freak out. No lovely E.T. like in Spielberg’s movie there, at least we can be sure of that! It will be Orange Alien Bad all the way! :o)
The problem with man-made UFOs to date is that they all need to be powered by fission reactors which is a catastrophe waiting to happen if one of them should fall from the sky, but as soon as portable fusion reactors become available you’ll see them everywhere, and don’t believe the narrative that they’ll speil, they’re man made.
Perfectly said. Capitalism can’t solve any societal problem, too much inefficiency and skimming, and the influence of accumulated capital on politics, built into the system. Libertarians define capitalism as Mom and Pop companies, but that isn’t true. Mom and Pop may own a hardware store or pharmacy, but the means of production behind that outlet is always rapacious and puts excessive capital accumulation above the environment and public health. I don’t know anyone who wants human suffering and environmental destruction, but there are deeply conditioned beliefs that we must struggle against each other to survive.
Small business owners are not capitalists. They are the petty bourgeoisie. Capitalists are the billionaires. The Jeff Bezos, Elon Musks, corporate predators that are covering the Earth like a malignant cancer. Capitalists control the government, making sure that they are favored by government actions. This is why capitalism must be overthrown.
Til they give them a glass of water, then you’ll watch them flee to the desert.
I tried pychedelics once, mushrooms once as well. I did not find either experience enjoyable. Treating mentally damaged people with them to me is akin to bleedin the sick to make them well.
I took LSD more than 50 times and mushrooms as well. I enjoyed the experiences tremendously. I never had a bad trip. People who have bad trips have unresolved hangups. You are ignorant.
I think bad trips were more random, and depended on the particular drugs. they cut lsd with different stuff, sometimes, like strycchine, sometimes you get the pure stuff like windowpane, sometimes not.
Oregon recently became the first US state to legalize psilocybin (mushrooms) for medical use only. I have never tried psychedelics, but I’m sure curious. The Oregon rule is that to be legal, you must use a trained professional guide. They are still working on the training program, so they don’t have anyone available yet, they say next year they will.
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I have heard people say a guide makes all the difference. I think they are supposed to be able to guide you to a good trip, or at least keep you from wandering into traffic while you are tripping.
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There is a town in Oregon, maybe a couple, who have become alarmed at the idea of a legal psilocybin clinic in their territory, and they are making local laws to ban them.
What better way to destroy world religions than by giving credence to UFOs.
As I see it, the only forms of religion that would be undermined by the discovery of intelligent life on other planets would be those wedded to a small-minded, outmoded view of creation. For the rest of religious believers of all persuasions, such a discovery would likely be deemed additional evidence that the universe was designed or evolved to enable the flourishing of life. Eastern religious traditions would have little difficulty in embracing such a discovery, while Western traditions might seek recourse in something like the Cosmic Christ or in an even deeper affirmation of religious pluralism. What would be most fascinating to me is whether the “aliens” had their own modes of religious thought and expression. They, too, of course, would be both self-conscious and mortal, which tension I see as the precondition, if not the origin, of all things religious.
One way or another nature will get us. Whether it’s ‘human nature’ via WMDs, etc., or Mother Nature. We are only able to work on the human nature side. Fundamentalist capitalists are the very worst of the worst. They’re the ones behind the WEF and this latest NATO war aggro in Ukraine, for example. Their god is [imaginary] money which translates into fraudulent power over us. Ergo, we can power them down by changing what we use as money. Instead of their poisonous usury-dominated debt-money we can start using our own local happy money that does not take us down into indentured slavery. We don’t need to be confrontational as a complementary currency can run in tandem growing support all the while as awareness increases. https://www.complementarycurrency.org/
We can also form co-ops in all sectors of human activity. Co-ops [collaboration] are the direct opposite of corporations [competition] that are doing the damage. https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity#:~:text=Cooperatives%20are%20based%20on%20the,responsibility%20and%20caring%20for%20others. Check out the post-capitalist Mondragon co-ops! Although they describe themselves as a corporation I submit that Mondragon is a co-operative federation with each co-op fully collaborating with each other in the home region and other co-ops across the world of which there are already very very many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Dumping traditional electoral politics is also strongly indicated. We could try out our own FULL democracy using Direct Democracy again at a local (but networkable) level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
**We need no-ones permission (except our own) to instigate any of the above.**
Liberals are capitalists too. That is what climate change is all about. Capturing the environmental message to allow ecocide to continue without opposition. Lithium mining for batteries is one of the most destructive metods of ecocide. The energy, metals, petroleum products expended for wind farms ans solar farms creation and maintenance is ecocide on a grand scale. Climate change is the brain child of capitalists. Groups like the sierra club used to fight such things, now they cheer them on.
Chicken and egg, isn’t it? Without the will to “greatly do right,” as Thoreau put it, becoming conscious of a seemingly intractable problem, like capitalism/ecocide, does not necessarily trigger its solution. The immensity of the problem might well, to the contrary, demoralize and immobilize us. A solution would require BOTH an expansion of consciousness AND and an almost heroic summoning of will. There’s far too much either/or thinking about these days. It’s unfortunate that in an otherwise excellent piece, Caitlin utilizes an overly blunt, binary mode to frame to frame a complex issue, as she also did recently with Eastern vs. Western metaphysics.
Please excuse the repetition of “to frame.” Age takes it’s toll, but there’s two sides of that process as well….
What about prapagandized consciousness?
Unfortunately, the Oligarchs are insane, and they are ADDICTS for MORE Money, Power & Control.
Their solution to climate catastrophe is ‘maybe we should all just go live in space’ which is what Bezos tweeted a few years ago before Twitter kicked me off the platform for expressing my political views.
Their ‘plan’ is pretty evil actually… they intend for most of us to die and they intend to go live in space (the UFO emergency is just like their narratives for war, it is to justify spending insane amounts of money on space activity) especially if they do end up causing a nuclear event that is the ‘method’ they use to kill off most of us. I think their goal is only one billion people left by 2030 or something like that. They are not really trying to hide their insane and sinister plans from those who really want to look.
They have been lying to us, abusing & exploiting us, etc for decades. Many people I consider very intelligent think I am radical because that’s what corporate media tells them to think. Anything they don’t give us permission to say or think is considered radical and that has created an incredibly mentally unhealthy society.
IMHO, there’s an unsettling binary also at work in the “othering” of the elite. Are they simply sociopathic monsters, essentially different, inherently more evil than the rest of us. Or are they only what we would look like, think like, behave like, had fate put us from birth in their shoes? It’s easier to buy this argument–some would say “excuse”–in the case of the downtrodden, is it not? We are more willing to attribute the antisocial behavior of the desperately poor to the conditions of their lives than we are with the oppressive behavior of the privileged. But does nurture trump nature in both cases? And if so, how should that “expansion of consciousness” temper our thoughts and actions in seeking social justice?
Most people in the uninformed public – even though they’ve seen movies about Wall Street – analyze capitalism in terms of the public figures fronting the assets. But we can’t seriously analyze today’s capitalism with yesterday’s tools. In Marx’s time, the capitalists owned the means of production intuitu personae. Now they’re owned by millions of shareholders (aka proles) federated by investment companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Berkshire Hathaway etc.
The shares are on the stock market whose actors simply go for what’s more profitable. Billions of dollars are moved each day by computers and even traders only intervene punctually. It’s a very complex structure on which depend retirement pensions, insurances etc. If the stocks of your pension fund crash, here’s your old age pension going up in smoke. And of course this can work against the interests of the shareholder himself. The pension fund might choose a solution where it will be more profitable for your pension building to kick you out of your job – all this being of course not personalized but driven by numbers.
There’s no escaping the fact that development needs funds and, as one Rothschild famously put it, “my clients are the poor because they’re the most numerous”. The people who make the decisions generally own “only” majority shares of a company, to the tune of 5% or 6%, sometimes less in the case of very large companies. The rest is owned by a “silent majority” of infinitesimal shareholders whose asset managers are only concerned with better profits.
BlackRock for instance has a big PR stunt about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) but is at the same time the main stakeholder in fossil fuel companies because they’re profitable. It’s computer-driven mechanical stock exchange. Besides, the fact that all this climate agitation is a joke is pretty well summed up by the fact that the Greens in Europe, who spent decades fighting carbon emissions, are now favoring coal in Germany and even wood, in Poland, to produce energy just to avoid financing Russia while at the same time enriching Russia by buying Russian oil from India and China where both countries make a profit on top of the Russian one. So the final consumer pays more for the same oil. Will this limit consumption in Europe? Probably. But the Russian oil we won’t use will go elsewhere and the net carbon emissions for the planet will be the same – worse if you account for the transport by tankers from India and China instead of the Nord Stream pipelines. People in Europe will freeze their balls and think twice about taking their car to go and see Grandma for peanuts in terms of global carbon emissions. This is all geopolitical smoke and mirrors and pissing-contest politics – the worst sort.
You’re basically right about them not wanting a bunch of poor people around, but nobody can go live in space; life is working on earth because of the magnetic field and our distance from the sun. Plus there aren’t enough rich people to keep themselves in charge when the food runs out. it’s collectivism here or nothing.
When plastic nanoparticles are found in pregnant women, the fat lady is starting to sing our swan song.
The Greens are normally the ones who look after that: respect of nature and fight against pollution, wars’ impact on the ecosystem, alternative energy sources… Bad luck… In Germany at least, they are hell bent on supporting the Ukronazis instead in the name of freedom and democracy. I’m asking you… People who censor, jail and torture someone every morning for breakfast and even have a kill list on a site called Myrotvorets that proved fatal to poor Darya Dugina – and incidentally has “Langley, VA, USA” written in the top right corner, can’t make that stuff up!
And fuck the German voters who pay their salaries and allowed them to be where they are in the first place to take care of… guess what… ecology. Just when you thought politics couldn’t stoop any lower :o)
Well said. These maniacs are more than willing to sacrifice all their own grandmothers, to feed the Hell fires of death and destruction in Ukraine.
Thanks for this Caitlin. I love you
You are not alone. The lady is an inspiration.
I visit a lot of sites on-line, and at every one … except here, I have to ignore the times where the writer/vlogger expresses an opinion that simply makes no sense, or admits frankly that they hate me. Not here.
I have no money for patreon, and certainly no bit coins. If I did, I would …
You got it wrong…’killer’ kapitalism IS the reason for ecocide and not looking for solutions that would interfere with profits.
The destruction of Nature will only go on for so long, but eventually the world will fling us off it’s back, as has happened before.
The water shortage in the western US and northern Mexico is an excellent example. Eventually water will be so scarce, industry and people will be forced to relocate until the remaining water can support those who remain.
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Not that simple! Arizona’s aquifers are drained by… Saudi Arabia! Go figure… Likely someone makes huge profits on that one at the expense of the locals! Perhaps someone that’s not even from Arizona either. But it pits local communities against one another while these guys probably have a good laugh while sucking them dry. Can’t make that stuff up!
We’re Number 1???
“This could go on indefinitely”???
Why???
Hmmmm????
Good thing they are in a nation that cares.
The evident is obvious but not always apparent.
Saudi Arabia Draining Water From Drought-Stricken Arizona