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--- Begin Message --- "The team then calculated what would be needed
sustainably to meet human demand for these various
activities. They wrote: "Our accounts indicate that
human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's
regenerative capacity since the Eighties."
-Daily Telegraph
June 25, 2002 :Fears over natural resources shortfall
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
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Capitalism produces human wants, but it does not answer human needs. To the capitalists there is a "natural resources shortfall." But it is merely because of the wastrel mentality of the capitalists that this is so. Public transportation, renewable energy like solar, wind, or wave energy, recyling and ending the flagrant overproduction of goods that are not at all necessary for people will immediatetly rectiify this false "scarcity" scare.
Economists who repeat the capitalist mantras and promulgate capitalist dogma claim that the basis of the economic system is scarcity. But what is scarcity but a reliance on a ridiculous staus quo that focuses on profits and production of increasing numbers of useless commodities.
In the United States, which uses 40% of the world's resources, and in the other industrial capitalist countries, people have been programmed to buy billions of useless objects. They work to spend; they do not work to live. People's culture, their enjoyment of nature or creativity or reading or a myriad of free activities has been manipulated so that even walking has been commoditized. There are special shoes, clothing,, magazines, treadmills. Life has degenerated into acquisition of goods and watching television which tells you life is about the acquisition of goods. Endless mindlessness. . .
Meanwhile billions are unemployed or working as sweated labor so that this lonely, pointless and irrational system can continue. People starve while others spend money to diet.
We could all be healthier and eat less meat, which would save tons of grain. The multinationals have bought up farmland to grow roses and special coffee beans and gourmet fruits, where people once grew food for their villages. Get rid of the multinationals amd the World Bank and the IMF and the people could grow food on the land.
Marx spoke of the cash nexus, and this world now spins upon it. The emiseration of the people of the Third World and Eastern Europe is now joined by the growing poverty in the industrialized imperialist nations. There are plenty of natural resources, enough for all, and the Malthusians who wrote this piece have in their minds that this rapacious, destructive sytem must go on forever.
They they fear it has its limits. And it does.
The imperialists are in a race with time. And so are the communists. The awareness of the workers and peasants of the world is rising as the inevitablity of the failure of capitalism is dawning upon us all. The US and the imperialist nations are rapidly militarizing, ready to face the righteous anger of the people of the world who understand this system.
The regenerative powers of the earth are stressed most of all by the use of fossil fuels. Global warming is actually killing the planet. The wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Africa and NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and South Asia, as well as imperial threats in Venezuela and other oil producing nations are all about s fossil fuels, most importantly oil and natural gas.
But these fuels are not necessary to the planet. No one needs an SUV. We don't even need to own cars. We can rent them as needed and create great systems of public transportation. Heat and light and power can in part be created by renewable energy sources. The sun shines for free. The waves roll for free. The air blows free.
As for all the clothes and toys and gadgets: we can learn to live without buying them to feed that insatiable appetite for things That appetite has been created, manipulated and propaganzied into an obsession by the capitalists. That appetite is a substitute for the human drive to live good and creative lives.
Those pundits who fear a shortfall of the earth's natural resources are terrified that this obsession for things could disappear as people realize the danger and absurdity of this capitalist system.
"Let the ruling classes tremble."
"Tis the final conflict."
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