Sustainable Development/Sustainable Capitalism Is The Unacknowledged Creator Of Climate Change! How Sustainable Is That?

Surprising quote from that I saw today on Facebook 16 Jan 2024, source Dead Poets Society, with Robin Williams starring: “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” To me, those 2 sentences of 25 words accidentally or not, embody the essence of “regenerative” – we do not wish to merely sustain life but to regenerate it. My wish is for “Regenerative Capitalism” in lieu of what we have today, “Sustainable Capitalism.” Let’s see how Sustainable is not sustainable!

(“Sustainable” from pngegg.com, quotes from facebook.com)

Yes, the one we have today, “Sustainable Capitalism” is the one that is bringing us all these “ecological catastrophes” – among these being devastating floods, ruinous droughts – because by man-made rules we are violating the laws of Mother Nature.

“Sustainable Development” or “Sustainable Capitalism” – it cannot be denied that the pursuit for sustainability has brought about unsustainability, being the cause of Climate Change!

I am an agriculturist, so I concentrate on what happened in agriculture that include these 7 losses:

1.     Loss of biodiversity

2.     Loss of soil fertility

3.     Loss of healthy crops

4.     Loss of healthy harvests

5.     Loss of healthy customers

6.     Loss of healthy incomes

7.     Loss of healthy villages!

Why because, as Michael J Coren says, “Capitalism Without Natural Capital Isn’t Sustainable” (24 Sept 2020, Quartz, qz.com):

Capitalism has destruction woven into its DNA. The endless stream of new inventions and ideas supplying new jobs and new things for businesses to sell comes courtesy of “creative destruction.”

That is how Man’s Creativity has become Man’s Enemy!

Here is another misguided thinking. The 11^th President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam says (smartschoolerp.com):

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

“When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes” – that is exactly the problem with creative capitalism, its focus being on the economy and not the environment that includes us people!

Let us continue with what Mr Coren says:

… Destruction begets creation.

Yet some destruction is needless environmental devastation. Amazonian rainforest is burned for cattle pasture, then abandoned. Fertile soil is washed away by industrial farming. Even something as innocuous as a Google search is powered by fossil fuel plants far away emitting greenhouse gases. After two centuries of this accumulated damage, and an overheating climate, capitalism’s trajectory is beginning to look like a bad ending to one of Hollywood’s apocalypse movies.

“Even something as innocuous as a Google search is powered by fossil fuel plants far away emitting greenhouse gases” – I did not realize that until I read Mr Coren! I knew before that it is the greenhouses gases (GHGs) that create that atmospheric roof that presents earthly heat from disappearing into the wild blue yonder; instead, the GHGs reflect back the Earth’s heat back to Earth, which is what causes those disastrous droughts, frightful floods and crop catastrophes.

What else do we want?!@517