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The scientific consensus is that within a century unbridled capitalism will end up killing an order of magnitude more people than any other system ever did.
by maeil 4y ago
The scientific consensus is that within a century unbridled capitalism will end up killing an order of magnitude more people than any other system ever did.
- elcritch 4y agoExcept that fossil fuels aren't limited to capitalist countries. Even then accounting future potential deaths to an economic system is a bit meaningless compared to prior concrete and repeated history. Much less there's no way we can accurately predict the death toll of something a century out -- in the 1960-70's it was "obvious" there would be billions dying of starvation. We could crack fusion power in a decade and use direct CO2 capture to reverse CO2 levels to pre-1850's level.
- oceanplexian 4y agoThis argument doesn’t land for me. It’s like saying that Math kills people because Math is used to build bombs. Capitalism is an economic system, not a social system. There are human beings in charge of corporations doing the killing, polluting, and so on. Those individuals are responsible.