Reply #23: I'm not sure we can blame just capitalism [View All]

[The2ndWheel]

"Your assertion that we at any point in the past 100 years have used an intelligent application of science and technology without corruption by Capitalista priorities is just plain wrong."

I don't think I asserted that. I know that if I did, I wouldn't have stopped at 100 years, because this is an complex issue with countless variables that has, at least, thousands of years of history and momentum behind it.

"based on an economic ponzi scheme called Capitalism where all the benefits rise to the top and all the costs and pain drop onto the "little people.""

Don't we do that as a species though? We privatize the resources of the planet for the wants of a single species, and socialize the costs to the planet/the rest of life.

I like to think of each species as a corporation, and the planet as a government. In human society, we like the government to regulate corporations. We don't want corporations writing rules and controlling our government. It's the same environmentally. The planet needs to be able to regulate all the different species, for the same reasons we want governments to regulate corporations. But our species wants to write the rules, in our favor of course. Then we wonder why Exxon, or Monsanto, or Wal-Mart(or whatever) do what they do. They do so because humans are the equivalent of Exxon, Monsanto, or Wal-Mart, when it comes to the environment. We don't like limits. We don't like having to pay our fair share. We want it all.