The planet won't die, but we will

Who knew that you could turn an entire planet into a gas chamber?

Venus.

Okay but why does the picture look like someone put their phone on a flatbed scanner

Let's be fair, we've made plenty of species extinct just for the love of the game.

It’s not capitalism per se. It’s the lazy, stupid populace that allows the system of regulatory capture we have.

The fossil fuel industry also gets a metric fuck ton of tax payer funded subsidies. That’s not capitalism. That’s a quasi state economy.

In a true capitalist system, we’d see more competitive forms of energy taking off, like solar and wind which are cheaper than fossil fuels at this point. But because the government keeps fossil fuels going, we’re not getting off them.

the fossil gas problem is only about 50 years old. before that, levels were increasing but still manageable. carbon taxes were designed to be a solution compatible with capitalism

200 species a day!

Capitalism only works when there's a big bad Soviet state that they have to compete against in a popularity contest in the global stage, and if they go mask-off it scares all the fence sitting nations into communism.

If 2008 had happens in 1968 everyone involved would have been tried as Soviet saboteurs or something in a big red scare purge. "Using capitalism against itself" or something....

Not to say anhydrous communism is the solution either. I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle of ⅔ communism for natural monopolies and necessities, and ⅓ capitalism for luxury goods and comoddities in purely elastic markets.

A tank of gas and a TV cost the same amount of money because competition legitimately worked for the TV, and fucking didn't for the gasoline 🤣

It's hard to know if the world would still suck the same under a different system.

But I agree lol

unregulated captialism..

it wasn't always unregulated.

"Why...there oughta be a law!" /s

To be fair, what we have in most of the world isn’t actually raw/pure capitalism, most of the time called Laissez-faire capitalism. Most of the world has a mixed economy of different capitalism implantations across the board in different areas: state/regulated/corporate capitalism and best of all crony capitalism.

Regulated capitalism may actually work if we regulated it fairly and didn’t have megacorps writing the laws. But I don’t have that much faith in human nature to not keep fucking it up like we’ve done so many times.

It's extinct species per minute not year, there are a lot of unique species most of them still undiscovered going extinct.

How will we prove that we're the pointy end of the food chain of we don't completely destroy everything below us?