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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 7:24:05 GMT 1
Capitalism has failed the world in one significant way and that is in creating conditions for the world population to get far too large. The planet can only sustain about half what there is presently. Anyway, if you want democracy then you have to accept some form of capitalism as all other systems are totalitarian. There can be a democracy without capitalism. Capitalism is just "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state". Unfortunately the West is largely greedy as are people in general. The article is spot on. Defending capitalism is merely expressing ones greed. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 8:44:32 GMT 1
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Post by Nifty on Oct 31, 2021 11:21:09 GMT 1
What video?
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Post by FFS on Oct 31, 2021 11:24:43 GMT 1
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Post by dilly on Oct 31, 2021 12:18:28 GMT 1
Yes, interesting article.
Degrowth would be the way to go but, unfortunately, I can't see the hyper-rich giving up their way of life any time soon...
For those interested in similar ideas (décroissance) in France, you can look up the "mouvement Colibris" or watch Cyril Dion's film "Demain".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 15:30:02 GMT 1
I miss plastic straws at Mcdoos a milkshake and paper staws do not last. Yes, sucking that chicken fat through a paper straw is apparently a challenge. Amazing what they can do with chicken fat, tastes like vanilla.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 20:07:24 GMT 1
Looking at the more planet destructive regimes of the moment, China, Russia, Brazil, US(🤬), North Korea, they can hardly be called democratic. Democracy, created and maintained by capitalism is, ironically the thing which keeps it from going to extremes, surely? Please watch this Woolybanana - to the end. Your comments are very/totally subjective. BTW the best thing that can come out of the current meeting is to have another one elsewhere VERY soon. |
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Post by Nifty on Nov 1, 2021 14:15:23 GMT 1
Has anyone seen the size of the motorcade escort for the meeting on climate change in Glasgow.
I wonder how many of those cars were flown in from the US?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 14:33:55 GMT 1
Has anyone seen the size of the motorcade escort for the meeting on climate change in Glasgow. I wonder how many of those cars were flown in from the US? All 100 or so of them I believe. What a ludicrous world we live in. |
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Post by FFS on Nov 1, 2021 17:34:21 GMT 1
Has anyone seen the size of the motorcade escort for the meeting on climate change in Glasgow. I wonder how many of those cars were flown in from the US? All 100 or so of them I believe. What a ludicrous world we live in. What an irony, and no doubt no-one whose voice can be heard will say anything about it. |
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Post by suein56 on Nov 1, 2021 18:01:37 GMT 1
All 100 or so of them I believe. What a ludicrous world we live in. and no doubt no-one whose voice can be heard will say anything about it. And then, after a few days in Glasgow, the big-wigs go back home (cars and all) and the negotiators take over. Good luck to them but I don't have much hope. What an idiotic mess .. just another stupid jolly for some of the world leaders .. 'look world we're doing smthg'. Yea right. |
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Post by Nifty on Nov 1, 2021 19:43:58 GMT 1
All 100 or so of them I believe. What a ludicrous world we live in. What an irony, and no doubt no-one whose voice can be heard will say anything about it. Greta Beta |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 22:41:24 GMT 1
A few too many sherries?  |
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Post by FFS on Nov 1, 2021 22:43:32 GMT 1
A few too many sherries? <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Too few brain cells. |
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Post by Nifty on Nov 2, 2021 6:43:00 GMT 1
filmschoolrejects.com/the-twilight-zone-history/I read through this and was thinking about when there was a school of thought that it was possible to influence populations through the media. The Daily Mail claimed that the idea was poppycock!
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