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From what I can tell between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year. Maybe we should tax the rich to save them all? How can we save 100,000 e

From what I can tell between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year. Maybe we should tax the rich to save them all? How can we save 100,000 each year. Do we think Capitalism is causing these extinction?

fennecfoxen 7y ago
Broadly speaking, "people growing food" is causing these extinctions. Ending capitalism might reverse these changes to the ecosystems, insofar as people suffer mass starvation, are killed in revolutionary struggle / civil war, or are exterminated by a dystopian post-capitalist state; aside from this you should, broadly speaking, expect the inferior yields of collectivized agriculture to worsen the environmental degradation (by requiring more farmland), not improve it.
- solotronics 7y ago
  Well if history is any measure the move away from capitalism will kill off a good percentage of the population. So I guess from an ecological standpoint it would be good to have a communist revolution every couple decades then quickly go back to capitalism so the people left can live nice lives.
- olefoo 7y ago
  You do know that it's possible to grow food without introducing long-lived poisons into the environment; right? The rest of your contribution is a stunning display of illiteracy in political economics. For a counter example on collective agriculture read up on the Kibbutzim.
BurningFrog 7y ago
The gigantic estimates of species extinction are just guesses. We only know of about 1000 species that have gone extinct the last 500 years. https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-01-02-extinct-animal-species-2018 https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-01-02-exti...