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Report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable
- codefreeordie 4y ago[flagged]
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
- stevenalowe 4y ago(2021)
- verdverm 4y agoonly if you limit yourself to a single planet?
- Beltalowda 4y agoI don't know if this comment is serious or in jest, but making practical use of resources beyond the earth (planets, asteroids, comets) is so far off that it might as well not exist in terms of any practical policy we make today. We seem to be in something of a "second space age" with unbridled optimism about what might be possible in a few decades time. Almost none of the predications from the 50s and 60s have turned out to be even remotely close to reality, and I'm fairly certain we'll see a repeat of that.
- superchroma 4y agoWell I'm glad it's not just ordinary people saying it.
- boppo1 4y agoI wonder how the IPCC defines capitalism. People are allowed to have property? I think there's a fair argument that we don't have capitalism, given the central planning committees deciding interest rates in the West. More like pseudo-market corporate-socialism.
- polotics 4y agoThat is one extremely confused and unhelpful way to express our predicament! Private property and capital and competition and the invisible hand of the markets are all perfectly adapted if, and only if, the cost of externalities is accounted properly, and the net present value of one more mega-SUV idling in a jam is just damn paid for. What part of economic activity is still a positive once all accounting is done, I don't know, but I do know everyone will still have needs and wants.