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Capitalism is killing our planet
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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This doesn't make any sense, since when earth became a closed system?
Also capitalism is a system. A human one. Its not biological in nature as it is an abstraction. As such it can change or disappear or be re used again and again and again.
There is no internal mechanism for human systems that say "hey create more of this system and then die at this point" or "hey build more of this system to fix this and that" or "hey created these new systems to evolve"
Humans do that, not the systems we create
Like it or not nobody wants to die, not even a tiny cancer cell. so it is in our best interests to expand into space to multiply our chances of survival.
And like it or not, it's gonna happen.
It's a closed system as far as resources go. We're not adding new material to the earth other than falling space debris and meteorites.
Solar power wants to have a word with you
We are not adding materials (...yet, mining asteroids isn't that far fetched anymore), but we also aren't removing any either and can recycle old stuff into new stuff. Also we get a constant supply of virtually limitless energy from the sun.
we're not removing fossil fuels? We can just recycle coal/natural gas/oil after burning it? someone should tell that to all the scientists
Indeed we can. That's not to say we should keep burning those resources right now, but the carbon is not disappearing into an alternate universe either.
Earth is definitely a closed system. When you propose expanding to space, you are literally going out wide that system, but Earth is definitely limited