Climate Change and Saving Resources — Means Poverty? “Mass Production” is the Problem — and an Answer
Almost anyone around knows by this time that we are looking at a crisis of global and historic proportions: Global warming and its disastrous consequences.
Roots: Capitalism — Back to Sane Views on it
The discussion mentions the generally accepted system of capitalism as the root: In capitalism annual growth, also called the ROI — the return on investment — is crucial to the system as such.
The technology, the machines producing, and the lorries, carrying products around the world, the larger and smaller businesses and shops selling them, need power: These days still a lot of power, energy, that is produced based on fossilised material, namely gas and oil. Thus polluting the air with more CO2 every day.
But how many of those devices, mobile phones or even, and especially, groceries are actually used — or needed? How much of all produce is thrown away — taking its way directly from the shelves into the waste bins…
A rather cynical view could state that wars now and again destroying resources, factories and buildings alike, not to say businesses, are actually good — for business.
Because in a completely destroyed environment the growth rate will be around 90–100% on average.
Is that what we want? Destroy everything in order to keep the money? We should stop calculating ‘growth rate’ as a healthy sign of any society’s businesses by the amount of products sold.
Who needs all of them?
Renewable types of energy have to be forcefully established, as soon as possible. By forcefully I mean legally accepted ways with no ‘workarounds’ left open. No loopholes.
And it’s rather obvious that we need to check back on the existing system of mass production and growth that some preach like a religion:
“Only growth will save us.” Really…?
We need renewable energy resources, exclusively, now — and a sensible management of production rates.
