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Compete To Possess And Die Out, or Be Fair To Survive

By Lionel Anet

05 March, 2015
Countercurrents.org

That’s the option the 1% of people who own nearly half of the world’s wealth need to understand if we can convince our masters to survive - they must be a part of humanity and nature. But society needs to know the relationship of private property and people. Private property equals money therefore;moneymay only exist with private property. The creation of money must relate to private property; this means,as private property grows, there must be more money created to enable all thoseassets to be transferrable for the system to function. Public properties such as parks, minerals, oceans, rivers, and the atmosphere, have no monetary value unless they can be sold.As nations sell off public property more money must be put into circulation to transfer public to private property. And therefore those nationsbecome wealthier because public property has no monetary value.

As the importance of private property increases, it inversely affects theimportance of people and nature.The increased private-property-money also increases the complexity, which with privacyfacilitates corruption in as many forms as our imagination permits.But its real value is for the neocons,as theuse ofmodern money hide the connections between producer, merchant, and consumers. That money is an ideal medium we all have to use that shields the corruption of so many of our interactions. However, theconvenience of money can only be fully realised by the unscrupulous. For the consumer it enables to unknowingly take advantage of people and nature.

Australia’s barrier reef, a world-wonder, is presently threatened by coal shipment,a private operation, and as such, is more important than the health of the reef, a common property with no monetary value.The shipment will only damage the reef;however burning that coal can kill it.

The fluidity of money enables global capitalism to be seemingly so successful, which enables a few to take so much of the planet’s wealth that they think they created. That wealth came, in the main, from the planet assets, a common property, like the top soil, atmosphereand oceans, are common property created by life for its survival. Money as a measure is allowing most life supports to be degraded at an accelerating rate. Those assets were used up during capitalism to grow the economy to increase the wealth of the wealthy. The gains, we the 90+ % of the people have,area waste,as seen from the 1%.

The manipulation of money- its creation-its use– its interest- its removal,is the mediumthat’s controling capitalist society. That’s one of the reasons we are dominated by the present. Although we have accumulated an immense and a wide variety of knowledge, acquiredby using science and technology, whichshould enables us to have a peaceful and enjoyable life, but with that present mode operandi,it’s those discoveries that is used in the process of wiping all of us out. How much of life can survive is depended on how long we persist with capitalism.

The reason very few of us can imagine a system that’s sustainable, peaceful, and fair is due to our education, which has been tuned to perpetuate a dominant growing economy. It’s not only the result of recent capitalist’s philosophy, but of all civilised history, which is built on the domination by the few of the submissive masses. This history was and is how the dominant ones used the multitude to compete against rivals by any means. The justification has changed from the supernatural to a more pseudo-science interpreted with mathematics during capitalism.

It’s ridiculous to think that we can’t think of a sustainable system. Nevertheless, it’s not what sort of system will be sustainable, but how to go from the present destructive businessscheme to one that is fair,so as to be peaceful,so that it can be sustainable.

We can start by reducing the importance of money and to be able to that we must convince that wealthy 1%, of the danger they face, their lives are at stake if they don’t cooperate a little. They have to realise that growth is already slowing due to the lack of cheap energy.

Furthermore, atmospheric scientists have estimated that, with the carbon we have emitted, we can expect a 3 metre ocean rise by the end of this century. We are in big trouble and continual reliance on growth will end up killing everyone. The task ahead of us is the most difficult ever and to deal with it will take a united effort. So the ball is in their court, the 1%,has to decide to live as one of us or die.Nevertheless they can’t see the choice they have on their own; we must show them the choices they have, to save ourselves.

Lionel Anet
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On reading John Scales Avery’s article I can see that he knows serious our environmental problem. I maintain the problem is to find ways to deal with what the science is telling us. Therefore I’m pleased to read Avery and Klein thinking on the subject.

Gandhi As An Economist By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030315.htm

I liked Klein responses to why that strong denial to climate changes
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/03/naomi-klein-the-economic-system-we-have-created-global-warming
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SPIEGEL: In America and Australia, a lot of money is spent on efforts to deny climate change. Why?

Klein: It’s different from Europe. It’s an anger that is similar to that held by those who oppose abortion and gun control. It’s not only that they are protecting a way of life they don’t want to change. It’s that they understand that climate change challenges their core anti-government, free-market belief system. So they have to deny it to protect their very identity. That’s why there’s this intensity gap: Liberals want to take a little bit of action on climate protection. But at the same time, these liberals also have a number of other issues that are higher on their agenda. But we have to understand that the hardcore conservative climate change deniers will do everything in their power to prevent action.

Lionel Anet is a member of Sydney U3A University of the Third Age, of 20 years standing and now a life member






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