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Unless you are living isolated in the jungle (can’t blame you), you’ve
heard of everything going on for the past 3 years with a global
pandemic, an economic crisis, war and social movements all around the
globe. Besides Putin declaring war on Ukraine, there’s another issue that’s urgent to us all, no matter if you’re poor or rich, black or white, from the southern hemisphere or the northern:
Global Warming. *Insert deep drumrolls here*
There are a ton of influences that contribute to that but the
main driver, or maybe even root cause, of it is something that’s been
around for ages and really took off over the past 75 years — the years
after WW2. That’s capitalism.
Why capitalism is as flawed as every other system
Capitalism is based on the principle of the free market which basically
means that the government should control the market as little as
possible.
Policies and laws obviously vary from country to country but
one thing is common throughout all industrialized nations:
the economy is determined by supply and demand and those who control
these factors the most have the most influence — this leads to what
might be the underlying issue of it all: consumerism.
