True environmentalism must oppose capitalism

by David Jones

	Industry Pollution.

Preventing our planet Earth's worsening spiral into environmental destruction, including Global Warming, is dependent on the replacement of the global capitalist economic system. That is because the use of capitalism to guide economic development is the root cause of the pattern of over-consumption, pollution, as well as the corresponding repression of ecologically-friendly technologies, and that is responsible for environmental destruction. Environmental destruction is a phenomenon which grows out of economic development that fosters greed, which operates as a social psychological virus, to blind human economic agents to threats on their own survival.

You might ask, what is this "blind"? The elites who seek to exploit the global capitalist economic system for their pursuit of commercial profit, and power, seek to replace the collective instinct to seek the highest quality-of-survival, with behavioural patterns that foster the individualized pursuit and worship of materialism.

Some so-called "environmentalists" have tried to bring capitalism and environmental protection together, via the pursuit of what they call "sustainable development". However, "sustainable development" is an "unsustainable" context.

As long as development is to be indicated by commercial outcomes, any attempt to protect environmental areas, or to create, in general, meaningful environmental legislation, under a capitalist economic system, will eventually give way to the forces of greed. A sincerely committed supporter of environmental protection would appreciate that changing the course of planetary destruction, requires replacing the worship of commercially-centred capitalism, with a totally new economic system. Such a revitalized economic system would be oriented to the type of human survival that accompanies the pursuit of a higher quality-of-life.

Capitalism in an inherently predatory and self-destructive economic system, under the greed-driven guidance of owners of capitalism. The global economic system needs to shift away from "capital-ism", toward a "people-lism", which affirms of the quality-of-life of all the Earth inhabitants, and that emphasizes vital environmental protection, over greed.

For example, the on-going frustration of the Kyoto Protocol by for-profit fossil fuel driven interests globally; and countless other examples, show the futility of hoping for any meaningful and sustained protection of the environment under capitalism.

Meanwhile, published books banned from stocking by Indigo/Chapters bookstore in Canada, as well as by Barnes and Noble in the U.S. critically illuminate the kind of rejuvenated economic system that would protect the environment. Corporate-owned bookstores have sought to cover-up the presented well- researched alternatives to capitalism, that have been presented in the following books: Capitalism is Not Democracy, ISBN: 1894934636, and the Quality-of-Life and Human Development, ISBN: 1897036353, as well as Quantuum Economics, ISBN: 1894839609. You can acquire these books, with a member donation-pledge to The Canadian National Newspaper.

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