Not to be that guy, but animals of certain size are seemingly unaffected by cancer. I think Kurzkezadt (or however you spell it lol) did a video on why whales don’t die from cancer.
Economic output doesn’t have a 1:1 relationship with the planet’s resources. Many countries grow by offering services as opposed to goods. Not all goods have the same negative externalities in terms of harming the planet.
Capitalism isn’t killing our planet. Shits like Putin, Winnie Pooh, Kim Jong Un and Erdogan are.
Both are killing our planet, they are not mutually exclusive. Capitalism kills the planet through the destruction of the environment on a global scale for profit, the abuse and wage enslavement of the working class (and the rapidly decreasing standard of living for many because of this) and the hoarding of resources for a profit at the expense of those who actually need it. Homeless people starving to death outside of supermarkets, people losing their homes from skyrocketing rents and stagnant wages or never being able to afford one because greedy corporations buy up all the homes. How can you claim unchecked capitalism isn’t a scourge on our society and a root of so many of our problems?
You don’t need go be a genocidal dictator to kill the planet. All you need is greed, lack of empathy, and the means to hurt people for profit.
China has met and exceeded every climate goal they have set. However, Putin is just as responsible for killing the planet as the USA, and for the record Russia is a Capitalist economy. Lol, lmao even
Is there any evidence socialism can actually work at scale? What if capitalism is the best we got?
I’m a fan of capitalism with tight regulations and checks on corruption, personally
The very nature of capitalism facilitates concentrations of power, which will utilize that power to accumulate even more in any conceivable way. The system is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced if we care at all for basic human rights and a future for this species.
What is your proposed alternative? I struggle to think of any system that doesn’t inevitably result in concentrations of power
Concentrations of power is made from the greed of people. Honestly, I beliefe that any sufficiently large society will eventually fall into capitalism, and the other way around, capitalism encourages border-less states, making effectively bigger communities.
However, with the current economic trend of de-globalization, things may eventually change.