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> I don't agree that capitalism is responsible for environmental decline > environmental decline can be attributed to the form of democracy in which companies
by panarky 7y ago
> I don't agree that capitalism is responsible for environmental decline
> environmental decline can be attributed to the form of democracy in which companies control government policy
These are the same thing everywhere except in theory.
- crispinb 7y agoYeah. Capitalism apologists now sound very much like the credulous lefties who made excuses for the Soviet Union's many catastrophes, long after it was manifestly a disaster. A benign idealist version might exist in some Platonic realm, but for now the capitalism we have is a dire threat to all.