the world is on the brink of climate and environmental collapse. It isn't rocket science to figure out why the planet is on the brink of ruin.
Trace it back to the crackpot economic theories of Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. Con politicians to outsource tens of millions of industrial jobs in America with ruinous trade agreements, starting with the Reagan administration, and move them to low wage countries like India and China, with HUGE populations and few or no regulations, and you have the perfect recipe for outrageous corporate profits and ultimately the ruination of the planet.
Roughly 36 percent of the world's population lives in one of the two countries, and Asia has 60 percent of the world's population. Most of this continent's countries have few regulations on how businesses operate and too many people, and this is the disaster everybody needs to face. Pre-Friedman, these countries were heavily agriculturally based; now much of the continent is industrialized, but with no environmental regulations or few, the air, the water, the everything have turned to shit.
The one good thing about the COVID pandemic in the early going was that the air was so much better all over the world. When countries shut down, the planet was able to breathe. Now that COVID is gradually coming under control, the environment is going to shit again, and we may not have that long left as a world.
The billionaires think they can take their ill-gotten money and go to other planets, but they are in for a rude awakening.
Not hard to figure out, folks, why we have a disaster on our hands. Forty years of neoliberalism have fucked over the planet and ultimately the human race.
If Friedman hadn't been cremated and scattered after he died, I would piss on his grave.
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