Editorial Ecosocialsm or Ecoside!:

Editorial: Ecosocialsm or Capitalist Ecoside!

George Monbiot: Declare Capitalism Dead – Before it Takes Us All Down With It! (2019)  “The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth.   It is time to design a new one Capitalism’s failures arise from two of its defining elements.    The first is perpetual growth.  

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.    Those who defend capitalism argue that, as consumption switches from goods to services, economic growth can be decoupled from the use of material resources. Last week a paper in the journal New Political Economy, by Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis, examined this premise.     

They found that while some relative decoupling took place in the 20th century (material resource consumption grew, but not as quickly as economic growth), in the 21st century there has been a recoupling: rising resource consumption has so far matched or exceeded the rate of economic growth.    The absolute decoupling needed to avert environmental catastrophe (a reduction in material resource use) has never been achieved, and appears impossible while economic growth continues. Green growth is an illusion    

A system based on perpetual growth cannot function without peripheries and externalities.      There must always be an extraction zone – from which materials are taken without full payment – and a disposal zone, where costs are dumped in the form of waste and pollution. As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.”

Today, The United States Capitalists are Operatiing  to Creat More Profit  at the Expense of the Environment. The declining rate of profit have pit the capitalists in a wolrd wide war is search of new profits.  The War in Iran for oil, the quest to plunder the ocean with mile long tents and ocean deep see mining, and fracking the artice tundra. are all taking a toll on the environment. 

These global plunder plinder have  led to increase of  environmenal destruction and accleration in global warming, wildfires, drought, deserification, floods, famine, global hunger, a global economic crisis and a global water crisis!                                        The encironment scientists and the World Meteorological Association all agree that the nationas of the world have to coperate to prevent acclerating global warming.  The Capitalism System is based on comeption — not coperation!          

It is time to ‘Declare Capitalism Dead – Before it Takes Us All Down With It!’        It is time to unite to build a cooperative world! Socialism is a system based on co-operation! The Choice before Humanity is Ecosocialism or Capitalist Ecocide! ‘Tomorrow will be too late for what we should have done long ago!’