capitalism's negative effects on the enviroment?

[Refuse]

i need help writing another paper for school, my topic is the same as this thread's. this is what i have so far any advice? also, anyone got any good facts?

We are living in a time period where humans are doing more irreversible damage to the natural environment than any other previous period in recorded history. Each week more topics pop up and avert our attention to the various issues of environmental degradation and how the increase in human activity is impacting on large areas of the natural environment globally. Climate changes, increase in population, over reliance on fossil fuels, and, worst of all, society’s lack of natural resource conservation. These can all lead us to different problems of various concern and, in my opinion, we as occupants of earth should fear those consequences and try to help avoid them.

Altering the source of these problems is hard, especially once it comes down to the fact; we, humans are the main problem. We live in a society where money can buy nearly anything of any amount so long as you have ‘x’ amount of money. American freedom and happiness is almost directly tied to the free market, and our ability to be as wasteful and as selfish of consumers we want to be. If our capitalist society continues down the path of using up earth’s limited supplies so aimlessly, we will eventually suffer the consequences.

[apathy maybe]

I agree that it is impossible to be a capitalist and a conservationist. I have drafted a paper on the issue that I was going to present at a workshop, I didn't end up presenting anything, and the paper is still in draft form.

However, in the next few days or so I will have another look and may post it here.

[BobKKKindle$]

Make sure you draw attention to the international aspects of environmental degredation; Developing countries are forced to reduce regulations on the quality of the environment and preservation of areas of ecological value in order to attract foreign direct investment from western countries, as the absence of domestic corporations means investment is necessary to generate employment and economic growth - this is known as the environmental 'race to the bottom'

In addition, you should also recognize the role of fossil-fuel corporations; companies such as Exxon discourage the development of alternative fuels such as solar power, as this would deprive them of a market for their commodity, and fund groups which present global warming as an issue of contention within the scientific community - I recommend George Monbiot's Heat for further information on this issue. This book is generally very good; although the author is not a radical leftists, he does show how the market prevents the implementation of effective measures to preserve the environment.