Witness what John McMurtry terms "The Death Spiral" in action. The more the system fails, the more rapidly and acutely it co-opts the byproduct problems into more money-making and value system reinforcements. "Forests are cut down. Water is contaminated. Air is saturated with carbon emissions. Soil is depleted. Acidity levels in the oceans skyrocket. Atmospheric temperatures soar. And someone, somewhere, makes obscene sums of money from it. Corporations, indifferent to what is sacred, see the death of the planet as another investment opportunity. They are scurrying to mine the exposed polar waters for the last vestiges of oil, gas, minerals and fish. And since the corporations dictate our relationship to the ecosystem on which we depend for life, the chances of our survival look bleaker and bleaker. The final phase of 5,000 years of settled human activity ends with collective insanity." --Chris Hedges guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/01/climate-change-business-opportunity
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:56:51 +0000
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