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Capitalism, climate change and externalised costs, no surprises here.
by seb1204 3y ago
Capitalism, climate change and externalised costs, no surprises here.
- skrebbel 3y agoWhereas communism is great for the environment! Aral Sea anyone?
- geraldhh 3y agomaybe we can agree that people are bad for the environment, no matter the political circumstances
- sgjohnson 3y agoThat we definitely can agree on. Although I’m not in denial. I’m not willing to compromise on my lifestyle one bit for environment.
- bluescrn 3y agoBut we don't talk about population. We can take their cars, meat, heating, and hope away, but we still need to keep breeding ever more people, in pursuit of endless growth on this finite planet...
- Log_out_ 3y agoThey are both expressions of human nature at scale
- hkt 3y agoIt seems administrations vary somewhat. Cuba, for instance, has six unesco biosphere reserves that are pretty pristine: https://cubaniatravel.com/stories/discover-cubas-six-unesco-biosphere-reserves-how-a-red-country-went-green/ https://cubaniatravel.com/stories/discover-cubas-six-unesco-... Edit: there are economic models that are neither capitalist nor communist, to boot
- workingdog 3y agoI'm waiting for the socialist-built canals
- everybodyknows 3y agoDone, 1933: https://allthatsinteresting.com/white-sea-baltic-canal https://allthatsinteresting.com/white-sea-baltic-canal
- workingdog 3y agoI asked for that... I should have specified 'meaningful'. The first sentence of your link: "First opened in 1933, the White Sea-Baltic Canal was built on the backs of gulag prisoners. By the time it was done, more than 25,000 laborers had lost their lives." What a triumph!
- lostmsu 3y agoIt was hard to find but that's how US dug the Panama: In the end, 350 white workers had died compared to 4,500 black workers.