[lbo-talk] capitalism ecologically unsustainable

[Charles Brown]

Not the first one, sez Jared Diamond in his book _Collapse_ and probably not
the last one.  However, what seems unique about c. is that unlike its
romanticized pre-modern predecessors, it has created the technical capacity
of effectively dealing with climate changes.  This conclusion may be at odds
with Diamond's thesis that all the societies that collapsed did have the
capacity to survive the collapse, but they simply did not utilize that
capacity for cultural reasons.

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CB: However, capitalism is more global or human species-wide than any
previous class divided system ( since the first species wide system in the
forager mode of production); and its extraordinarily powerful technological
system has the flip side of an extraordinarily powerful mode of
destruction/W'sMD, including especially thousands of nuclear weapons, and
titanic capitalogenic ecological pollution in its industrial age. So, there
is a forseeable threat of total, global human species extinction that has
never existed , at least in recorded memory. Capitalism has the motherfucker
load, and its cultural decadence is preventing it from using its capacity to
avoid foreseeable catastrophe