The problem is capitalism with its embedded goal of growing profit. It took capitalists some time and a lot of propaganda to convince people to shift to single-use plastics instead of reusable containers (i.e. glass bottles for milk). It is not profitable for this economic wasteful system of production to change back, and it doesn’t need to, because this system is backed by governments all over the world. So, the solution can only come from a systemic change.
The drive for not just profit, but ever increasing stock values is dead at the center of most environmental issues, and a damn big slice of general issues. The environmental ones it isn’t the core of, it ain’t far from center, and it amplified any other factors far more than it would have with a people focused system.
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The problem is capitalism with its embedded goal of growing profit. It took capitalists some time and a lot of propaganda to convince people to shift to single-use plastics instead of reusable containers (i.e. glass bottles for milk). It is not profitable for this
economicwasteful system of production to change back, and it doesn’t need to, because this system is backed by governments all over the world. So, the solution can only come from a systemic change.Abso-freakin-lutely
The drive for not just profit, but ever increasing stock values is dead at the center of most environmental issues, and a damn big slice of general issues. The environmental ones it isn’t the core of, it ain’t far from center, and it amplified any other factors far more than it would have with a people focused system.