Human growth may be pushing the limits.
Think how much worse the effects of human growth would be under socialism. See... Venezuela... to see how a country once developed can devolve. Are today’s Venezuelans green?
Okay, lets all go back to the Indus River Valley civilization and start over..................
yes... invest in GOVERNMENT!
They make so many nice products.
(what the hell kind of investment expert is this guy?)
What the . . .? What a whack job. His concern about the planet and its resources have nothing to do with capitalism. A good therapist may be able to help this guy however.
Under capitalism man will deal with the negative forces of nature resulting as by-products of his own activities in precisely the same way that he regularly deals with the primary forces of nature.
Furthermore, it must never be forgotten that any harm caused by capitalism is necessarily miniscule in comparison with the good achieved.
Follow the money trail.....
He sees ALL those wonderful potential green-house gas and carbon taxes that would fund his certain investments. He needs to get a life.
Capitalism produces EVERYTHING socialists/communists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/communism produces NOTHING socialists/communists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/communism can only exist as a parasite of a capitalist host.
Socialists/communists run out of things to “redistribute” the minute they succeed in destroying their capitalist host.
Not to mention that Communists murdered more than 100,000,000 of their own citizen in the 20th century alone.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
If every liberal, socialist, environmentalist, and communist killed themselves, there wouldn’t be any problem.
Did he really call them, or was he given insider information that they were about to happen?
You know what’s worse for the planet Jeremy? Socialism.
The air and water- not to mention industrial sites - in Eastern Europe were utterly FILTHY after the fall of state socialism. They had no money because the system sucked so caring for the environment was the absolute last priority. As such, they burned filthy brown coal and had no scrubbers on their smoke stacks for their power plants. Catalytic Converters got car exhaust? What’s that? They didn’t have any. There’d be clouds of blue exhaust behind every Trabant and Lada with their primitive 2 stroke engines. The air quality was so bad, that living in the city center of any big city in Eastern Europe the amount of soot/exhaust you breathed in was the equivalent of smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. All the buildings were literally black with soot. This lasted up through the mid 90s when, thanks to capitalism, they could get rid of the filthy commie “cars” (they were the size of golf carts) and start to clean up the power plants. It was several more years before they could power wash and clean all the old soot off the buildings.
I know. I lived over there several times from the early 90s to 2004 and saw the gradual transformation to the environment as capitalism steadily increased wealth there. So don’t tell me capitalism and wealth lead to environmental degradation. Socialism and the poverty it causes are far worse for the environment (not to mention the people).
Who’s this “we” he keeps talking about? The US has something like twice the tree coverage it had a century ago.
“...Capitalism and mainstream economics simply cannot deal with these problems...”
Really stupid comment.
Only capitalist countries produce enough wealth to spend the money to reduce pollution and clean up the environment.
Anybody ever heard of this jughead before now?
“We deforest the land, we degrade our soils, we pollute and overuse our water and we treat air like an open sewer, and we do it all off the balance sheet.”
Moron.
It is the wealth and prosperity created by the synergy of capitalism, innovation, and the subsequent technology that has allowed the wealthiest societies to reforest the land, protect our soils, clean our water and our air.
The UN wants to kill off 85% of the population. Ted Turner wants to kill off 97% of the population. Getting rid of capitalism and replacing it with a government run dictatorship is part of the plan.
Yes, pollution from capitalistic productivity or pollution from government destructiveness. One produces peace and prosperity, while one produces destructive wars. Better to error on the side of productivity. Winter is coming.