Lets face it capitalism and environmentally friendly working methods are incompatible.
See what globalisation has done to China, it has turned previously green areas into hazardous places, killing people and animals alike. Chinese factories churning out poisonous materials in the name of profit. When the Chinese start to embrace environmental considerations into their productions their goods are to rise in price shortly.
Rain forests being destroyed at a vast rate to make profits out of the wood.
Whilst everyone condemned East Germany for its barren lifestyle and today even more condemns North Korea, strangely enough both those countries are environmentally very friendly because they do not consume so much; you simply cannot combine the throw-away society with environmentally friendly living.
Having read a recent article stating that the earth has 10 years to change or be condemned to the reaction of earth warming due to carbon
poisoning, I am more then sceptical that such a feat will be achieved.
The switching on of Christmas lights in Oxford Street, 10 week prior to Christmas makes it quite clear, business is concerned with attracting customers to purchase goods, produced by using environmentally destructive methods because all production of industrially produced goods is environmentally destructive.
People are encouraged to throw away, recycle and buy new, which is a devilish plan. It does not reduce pollution, it increases it. The consumer lifestyle is forced upon people living in many cultivated countries.
The recycling of goods by using them second hand is strictly discouraged as it stops the industries from making profits by selling new goods.
People are simply unable to sell their second-hand goods cheaply at a local venue as they are being prohibited to occupy a public space to pass on used articles.
Natural energy can be used and made widely available but that is not being encouraged as it is not profitable for any company to develop such products, as it costs more than anyone company earns.
At the same time more and more public services are being privatised making it equally impossible to develop sensible solutions, which could be sponsored by a central government.
I never drove a car and probably will never drive one, unless it were necessary by undeniable needs. Nowadays its become respectable not to drive one but during Mrs Thatcher's reign, "only losers would use public transport".
It is very unfortunate the society has not achieved a system, enabling public control, enabling a mechanism, which stops the production of dangerous things.
E.g. at one time you had to smoke to be in, you had to drive to be in, most of those fashion gadgets have now been discovered to be environmentally dangerous.
Whilst our current government screams about populist tendencies, they encourage them in respect of industrial policies because it is very populist to have certain lifestyles but that might not necessarily be good.
We see a marbling up of the London town centre by privately owned landlords, which reminds me very much of the Roman building craze, just before the Roman empire fell.
In fact most great empires fell at the height of their civilisation, what should make it different for us?
So who is the goodie and who is the baddy then? It appears that today's free market economy is self-destructive, self-defeating and a step towards human annihilation. Today's
capitalist market structures simply cannot haul themselves out of self-destructive market mechanisms, which are make a quick profit, which is all that matters.
Coming back to the building and civilisations, it seems that the more cultivated and built up a society becomes the more rigid its structures also become, which inevitably leads to destruction of the whole society.
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