Most Warmists try and keep this on the down-low, as they do not want to let the average citizen know that one of the goals of the climate cult is for government to fully control the economy. It’s all part of the Modern Socialist agenda. Yet, the peasants never wonder “hey, is this going to mess up my own life?”
Letters to the Editor: Our wealth and consumption are killing the planet. We must rethink capitalism
To the editor: Times reporter Sammy Roth raises an important issue with respect to the role of capitalism in exacerbating the climate crisis.
Changing capitalism will require more time than our climate can afford, thus the profit motive will have to be, for the present, a driving force in any climate solution. However, in the long run our economic systems will have to change.
Having huge mansions and private jets as a measure of status is contradictory to having a sustainable future. The profit motive and economic expansion cannot continue to be the primary drivers of our society if we want to have lasting solutions to maintaining a livable Earth.
Pro-tip, bub: the rich folks will still have all their mansions and jets and yachts and such if you manage to create a government run economy (of course, the letter writer fails to say how he wants to change capitalism). You’ll be left with scraps. The government will tell you what you can buy and when you can buy it, and what line to wait in to buy it. If it doesn’t run out. See Venezuela and Soviet era Russia, among others. Think you’ll be allowed to stream all those videos and movies, travel around to take your selfies and upload them? Think your small business will be open? Only if you allow government to run it.
To the editor: The free market has run amok with greed.
While the full price of a product is being paid, the seller is not telling the buyer what the full price is.
You are not told by the seller of plastic bags that they will eventually choke off all life in the sea. The oil companies are not telling you that you may die of lung disease if you use their product. Elon Musk is not telling you that the lithium he sells in his electric vehicle batteries causes destruction of the environment.
And economists are not telling you that our economy is based on an ever growing population and how that growth is not possible on a finite planet.
So, it’s Elon’s fault? What about the US states that are mandating EVs? That Brandon is trying to push these? That governments are mandating EVs?
To the editor: Roth’s piece illustrates that environmentalism is cut from the same cloth as socialism and communism.
Environmentalism, socialism and communism are all strains of the same virus. The common denominators include hostility to private property, massive propaganda, coercion instead of freedom, austerity instead of prosperity, and vast shortages of the essentials and desirables of life.
Environmentalism is dominated by an elitist class that accuses the struggling productive class of living too well, and wants to cheat the productive class out of having nice things.
Spot on.
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Michigan has way too much weed.
Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday the Electoral College “has become a danger” to American democracy.
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) was the only House Democrat to vote against a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package on Friday, voting “no” on the measure because of increased funding for defense and federal agencies that oversee immigration.
