[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

I think a lot of the problems we face in the future (overpopulation, water privatization, climate change) are, unfortunately, overly complicated by capitalism.

In these countries where overpopulation is going to be a real problem, India and China being the main two, their economic growth is a huge part of the motivation to grow the population. They desire things (personal wealth, luxuries) that are, on a scale that large, completely unattainable.

It's been said 100 times, but water is the oil of the next century. It's scary to think the single most required aspect of life on this planet is going to become a tradable commodity. The most amazing part right now is how quietly the corporate world is preparing itself to take over the watersheds of North America and elsewhere.

As for climate change, I'm sure the greed of business will find some way to benefit from it.

This isn't to say ending capitalism would end these problems, more just that the rapid pace we've lived at for the past 100 years simply cannot continue.

It also seems pretty obvious that we have to stop eating beef and quit growing corn.

Who knows.

Yeah, capitalism is the problem - Raul Castro and Chavez will take care of things...