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..the planet can only give so much and it will respond violently to restore equilibrium/balance. This is just a sobering fact and the natural order of life that I'm trying to point out whether Malthusian or not.
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OTOH, wealthier countries reproduce less so it would seem that wealth might be the ultimate planet saver. it also allows for peopel to worry about being "green."
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(possibly the result of climate change manmade or not) such as what was just experienced in Burma this week and the entire human race is facing some serious problems.
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so how do you explain the natural disasters that occurred before humans even existed?
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"Fascism has to exploit either a foreign people or its own people; it has to have money, and if it must pay off the top subsidizers this means it has to destroy its millions of smaller helpers...."
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your last paragraph is fairly dogmatic. the above isn't a description of fascism but a description of states. the accumulation of capital isn't a goal of any capitalists nor is it why china has moved to capitalism. What is happening in American is basedon human nature. A wealthy, powerful nation became arrogant and felt entitled...per human nature, we've been slow to addresss ourt shortcomings or change our ways in response to the changing world. that's normal, most people, companies, and governments only change in response to crisis and with governments it's a crapshoot with whether it's for better or for worse. Lenin seized the tsar's poor decision to enter WWI, Hitler seized on a Germany sickened by the economic malaise under the Republic, FDR seized on the collapse of global trade, banking, and disastrous farming policies of his predecessors. GM couldn't change until bankruptcy was knocking at the door.