On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:05 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
> Richard wrote:
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>> Most of what passes for 'change' under capitalism is seriously
>> damaging,
>> sometimes devastating, to the majority of human beings on the planet.
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> This is utter lunacy. How about agricultural productivity.
How can agricultural productivity be measured without fully accounting for long-term exhaustion of soil and water resources and the polluting and climatic consequences of the fertilizer and pesticide inputs needed for that famous "productivity," not to mention the ecological and climatic consequences of the deforestation and monocultures required for the livestock industry component of your "productivity?" Isn't the lunacy precisely in the capitalist concept of agricultural productivity--the heedless plundering of all natural resources in order to increase "output" levels?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos