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Nothing will change as long as Capitalism is the force leading the World. All these summits mean nothing when all that matters is the results for the next quart
by zouhair 11y ago
Nothing will change as long as Capitalism is the force leading the World. All these summits mean nothing when all that matters is the results for the next quarter then the next.
- Brakenshire 11y agoThere's a big difference between Capitalism in general and completely free-market, unregulated Capitalism in particular. The market is an amazing instrument for technology development, if we had priced in the externalities of carbon twenty years ago, as originally planned at Kyoto, Capitalism would already be half way along to solving the problem in the same relentless way that it always pursues profit.
- tim333 11y agoYeah, CFCs got banned and the ozone hole went, you don't hear about acid rain any more, lead in petrol got banned, DDT got banned and so on in spite of Capitalism, so there's hope.
- zouhair 11y agoThat's not comparable. When they got rid of CFCs they just replaced it with something else. Now we need to stop making stuff, stat.
- zouhair 11y agoThis would be great if the big corporations couldn't lobby politicians.
- sktrdie 11y agoIsn't China communist?
- umanwizard 11y agoIn name only.
- zouhair 11y agoThen I'm the president of Gallifrey.
- vlehto 11y agoI'm gonna claim that nothing would change if we would get rid of capitalism, but politics remained the cesspool it is today. Politicians like power, money is just a form of power. Greed will find a way. On the other hand, with responsible, smart politicians and capitalism, anything is possible. What I'm saying is that the system is broken, but everybody is concentrating on the one part that actually does work.