That's a fair summation. Regarding number 1, there's no divergence, I agree with you 100% on capitalism not dealing with negative externalities. I think that n

That's a fair summation. Regarding number 1, there's no divergence, I agree with you 100% on capitalism not dealing with negative externalities. I think that no financial system we will ever come up with will ever be perfect. Regarding 2, this appears to be a disadvantage one must accept with a capitalist system. Regarding 3, I would be more positive. I think technology and human ingenuity will overcome pollution eventually, maybe by nanotechnology or clean tech etc. Maybe even human colonies in outer space, like the movie Wall-E or something. In the 1960s there was a theory that the world's population would grow faster than our ability to feed it. The Haber-Bosch process now feeds one-third of the world's population.[1] Good talking to you. It's good hearing different perpectives on these issues. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process