In my state, timber tycoons have systematically stripped the forests of usable wood. Having exhausted local resources, they are now migrating to neighbouring states to repeat the extraction cycle.
About five years ago, the state governor enacted a strict logging ban, citing the industry's absolute failure to replace the trees they harvested. For nearly two years, these corporate interests lobbied the government relentlessly to lift the restriction. Throughout this extensive lobbying period, they consistently failed to present any viable reforestation strategy.
Consequently, the governor drafted a state-led initiative. He established a new agency dedicated to reforestation, superseding the existing national forestry department that had long since abandoned its mandate. For six months, this new office functioned as intended. They planted saplings, monitored ecological recovery, and actively regulated logging activities.
Then, regulatory capture took effect. The tycoons successfully bribed the new agency, and all conservation efforts ceased completely. The governor's personal complicity remains unconfirmed; however, the institutional failure is absolute.
Capitalism functions as a purely extractive virus upon the planet. If this economic architecture is allowed to persist, within a few decades the populace will be forced to purchase polluted water and privatised oxygen simply to survive.
Yes, the USSR and China are famous for not destroying natural habitats or consuming nature to benefit themselves.
Its not capitalism people, it's us
Or it's them
I don't know
But does it help to get mad and doom spiral about it?
I'm not saying anyone's wrong for getting mad about it, Ive just been watching people cry foul on the internet for over 15 years now and I don't know if it's made any of us need less wood and delicious rare earth minerals...
Sir, this is an anarchist sub.
Yes actually, the USSR and China are famous for their ecological track records. Not perfect by any means, but they were/are far better than their capitalist counterparts.
Better than the US is not a high bar to clear.
The PRC has gotten better in the last 15 years, but was also pretty poor before that, and still enacts environmentally catastrophic colonial extractavist projects in South East Asia, similar to Europe and North America in Africa and South America. (Though none as catastrophic as my homeland has been in West Africa.)
I hope that the PRC can keep to it's trajectory, while reducing the harm done in South East Asia, and then in a few years can be better environmentally than all 1st World Nations.
The US is far better than both China and the USSR when it comes to environmental protections. It's not even close.
You're being voted for being absolutely correct
i do know that crying about it online serves no real purpose, you want to change this you either capture the government for yourself or remove the oligarchs. both are very obtainable goals
Remove the oligarchs and replace them or remove the oligarchs as in abolishing the goverment itself?
remove as in "their addresses are easy to find"
But then we just get new ones. I think the third option, abolishing the government, would be the best
Thanks, I needed one with better resolution.
Sure, though it is an svg on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#/media/File:Anarchy-symbol.svg
I wouldn't say ecological destruction is an inherent feature of being human. But yes its not just capitalism, there are many more motivations and ideologies that contribute to seeing the earth just as as a big bag of ressources. We should oppose all of those.