Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?

Click here to access article by Noam Chomsky from Nation of Change. 

Within the RECD [really existing capitalist democracy] system it is of extreme importance that we become the stupid nation, not misled by science and rationality, in the interests of the short-term gains of the masters of the economy and political system, and damn the consequences.

Our masters in the One Percent ruling class must continue to obscure, promote skepticism, and deny radical climate change in order to continue milking working people and nature for their obscene profits. There are so many costs, referred to by Chomsky as "externalities", incurred by both profit operations that are never registered in market transactions. Referring to ecological costs, this dean of social critics warns us:

The externality that is being ignored is the fate of the species. And there is nowhere to run, cap in hand, for a bailout.

In future, historians (if there are any) will look back on this curious spectacle taking shape in the early 21st century. For the first time in human history, humans are facing the significant prospect of severe calamity as a result of their actions – actions that are battering our prospects of decent survival.