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Climate Change vs Capitalism

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How Can Climate Change Crises be Useful to Abuse Capitalism Values?

Everyone has a chance of facing a crisis that Capitalism has brought to the world.

The rapid climate change due to human activities is changing all parts of land and

ocean imperiling organism clearing across the life tree. It is killing people through

intense storms and hot waves and pollution that has not been checked. Everyone in

this world should take responsibility. There are very many ways that climate change

can abuse capitalism values. The people may decide to purchase local foods that have

not been transported miles and also get electric cars and solar panels. But we should

not forget the root cause of the climate crisis which Capitalism. Capitalism has

depleted the atmosphere, killed its organism, overexploiting fish, and has to harm

humanity. Since 1988, most of the companies have been the reason behind harmful

emissions. Most of individuals hear about that plastic pollution and degrading of land.

The problem is known as Capitalism (Klein, 2011).

For the last 30 years of privatization, deregulation, and free trade were due to the

outcome of greedy people to make supernormal profits. The also caused stagflation

that led to unemployment and as a result, the need for immediate regeneration of the

economy. It was a real threat within the present economic model as a decrease in

production, which is a crisis as it leads to depression and recession of the economy.

Therefore, the climate change crisis is useful in that it reveals Capitalism as the

primary cause. Capitalism is consequently forced to close down such activities that

are of more harm than help to the economy. Moreover, the government and other

bodies are forced to put measures that will not look suitable to the capitalists. When

the capitalists are restricted from their money making activities, their values are

abused (Klein, 2011).

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Reference

Klein, N. (2011). Capitalism vs. the Climate. The Nation. Published on The Nation

(http://www.thenation.com)