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Article

5 Dec 2007

Author:
Jonathan Freedland, Guardian [UK]

We would be fools to banish global business from the great climate battle

One could go further, arguing that it is not just excessive consumerism but capitalism's very nature that makes it incompatible with the survival of our planet. For capitalism requires constant economic growth, yet the Earth's resources are finite. Capitalist logic says we must buy, sell and consume more and more each year. Nature's logic says we can't...Two possible political consequences flow from this, pointing in opposite directions...