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Regardless of what’s claimed by many people within ‘the powers that be’—including insidious elements within the collective, mainstream news-media—apparently there's a systematic societal priority for economic and job growth, especially involving the natural resource and mineral sector(s), basically with Earth and its eco-systems completely off of the figurative global-community radar.
Earth needs to change its priorities and seriously reconsider the issue in the ‘big picture’ format with basic logic: i.e. Quite contrary to what many ultra-fanatical libertarians erroneously propagate, Earth’s eco-systems and life can survive and be fully healthy without job and economic growth; however, jobs and share dividends are extremely useless when the planet and its life, most notably humans, are dead or too sick to work.
It’s just common sense conveniently (for its corporate masters) ignored by the large majority of the news-media.

FrankGSterleJr wrote:Regardless of what’s claimed by many people within ‘the powers that be’—including insidious elements within the collective, mainstream news-media—apparently there's a systematic societal priority for economic and job growth, especially involving the natural resource and mineral sector(s), basically with Earth and its eco-systems completely off of the figurative global-community radar.
Earth needs to change its priorities and seriously reconsider the issue in the ‘big picture’ format with basic logic: i.e. Quite contrary to what many ultra-fanatical libertarians erroneously propagate, Earth’s eco-systems and life can survive and be fully healthy without job and economic growth; however, jobs and share dividends are extremely useless when the planet and its life, most notably humans, are dead or too sick to work.
It’s just common sense conveniently (for its corporate masters) ignored by the large majority of the news-media.

You can say this as many times as you like. The juggernaught is on the move, and there is nothing to stop it. Daily we hear suggestions as to how to promote 'sustainability', ecology ad nauseam. But it is all hot air, papering over the cracks and appeasing the populous whilst the profiteering goes on and on.
Corporate interests move in, strip the assets and move on. There is not negative feedback on a global organisation. In earlier times if you over hunted, or over exploited the land, you soon suffered for it. But whilst there is yet another country to exploit; another forest to grub up, and another fish species to hunt to extinction, there is not negative feedback until the corporate entity just diversifies and exploits some other resource to extinction.