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    1 day ago

    You describe capitalism as a finite system

    No, I did not. Capitalism demands infinite growth. This planet is a finite system

    and then heavily imply that we’re near the outer boundary of that system or that all current and future resources are almost depleted.

    I don’t imply. I simply state a known fact. Anyone with even a passing exposure to economics and resource extraction would be very familiar with this fact.

    For example, 100 years ago, the energy within a barrel of oil could extract an additional 300 barrels of oil from the ground. These days, despite technology that has made the process massively more efficient, we get barely 10 barrels of oil out of the ground for that same amount of energy expended.

    These days same goes for almost every other resource you could possibly shake a stick at, from minerals such as steel and copper, over harvested materials such as fish and wood, and all the way down to agriculture, where the topsoil that almost all of our crops depend on will be completely depleted within the next 60 years, and will be depleted in most agricultural regions within the next 20-40.

    Capitalism is a cancer, and it’s killing the planet.