link to original reddit post by /u/perma-monk
First, yes, capitalism contributed to the fucking of our planet just like every other economic system has. But think about this. For the vast majority of human existence there has inadvertently been capitalism. And for the vast majority of that time, human beings had no idea just how bad certain behaviors and materials were towards the environment. Your average consumer didn’t actually know how deep we were getting.
Fast forward to 2006. The film “An Inconvenient Truth” comes out. Personally, and for a lot of regular people I know, this was my first real exposure to just how deep we were getting. Around the 1990s to present, the public truly started to encounter reliable information about how our practices may be damaging our environment. We began to integrate that knowledge into our schools. The consumer was becoming informed.
Now, in 2021, major automobile producers like GM are converting to fully electric lineups. Eco-innovation is a leading industry. Wind, solar, and renewable energy companies have been growing exponentially over the decade, and the demand for clean fuel sources is literally the voluntary direction of corporate future.
It took only roughly 30 years against a backdrop of THOUSANDS of years for human beings to go from knowing nothing and fucking up our planet, to almost unanimous capital interest in renewable energy and green technologies.
Capitalism has done a fucking hell of a job here.
(Originally posted in /r/libertarian, but brigaded by statists who think it’s unfair that an ideology valuing freedom would not want to entertain the predictable socialist drivel found everywhere else on this site).