Sunday, April 11, 2010

We all want to change the world

from The Economist. I suspect that most of the members of the ruling capitalist classes know that there is a collision course coming between their beloved system and the earth's ecological systems. But being addicted to profits, like an alcoholic addicted to drink, they are always dreaming up some excuse for continuing their habit. I think that it is a grotesque form of hubris to believe that humans can manage the earth's ecosystems. This article is appropriately carried in The Economist--the premier magazine of the capitalist classes.