Comment posted on facebook:
We should ALL accept a lower standard of living (excess) & make healthier choices in our purchases, feed the green economy with our dollars. it has less to do with comfort than it does survival. the govt has been screaming doom in the economy by making such choices, meanwhile doing little to fix this, yes there will be a massive recession as corps who are killing our Earth crumble. WAKE UP ♥
My response:
This is quite a generality you are making about the standard of living, although you do qualify it with “excess”... doesn't everyone have the right to a decent standard of living based upon what is a living income? The question is more about the need for a massive re-distribution of wealth in a way everyone has a decent standard of living which must include all those things articulated in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a bare minimum.
As for feeding the green economy what do we do about the corporate profits? Is it right that most of us feed this green economy while Wall Street reaps the profits?
Personally, I doubt capitalism can ever be a "green economy" because to begin with it is a system where profits are greatest when there is the most waste and production takes place for the sole purpose of bolstering corporate profits rather than on what is required for all people to live decent lives... for this, socialism is required.
The fact is, we are feeding a massive military machine instead of feeding people and providing people with the necessities to live decent lives and this terrible waste has to stop.
Karl Marx pointed out long ago that when a nation wastes its resources of war and militarism it might just as well toss its wealth into the deepest waters of the ocean.
Let's put things in perspective... how much better could the poorest amongst us live if we were using our resources to make life better for people rather than wasting our resources on militarism and wars?
The U.S. military-financial-industrial complex makes a sick mockery of any talk of a "green economy and green jobs" because of, if nothing else, the tremendous energy resources required to produce these weapons of war and then fight the wars. Anything we as a people might do as you suggest in the way of "feeding a green economy" with our spending and our tax dollars is nothing compared to our tax dollars senselessly feeding this insane massive war machine and paying for Obama's dirty wars.
Where is the obligation of our government to provide us with a free public healthcare system instead of paying for these imperialist wars... none of which are "green?"
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