Crises like the #CoronaOutbreak should be an impetus to rethink our relationship to nature and the organization of our economy that is run by the principle of profit maximalization inherent in he DNA of capitalism. However that is not an automatic outcome as #ClimateChange shows
Deniers of climate change often do so with the argument that those who warn for climate change do so because in reality they want to push radical criticism of and alternatives to capitalism - but it is exactly the other way around washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-sh…
Not climate change denial but logic that it can be business as usual is the real problem. Solutions like CO2 trading market mechanism (what happened to that argument?) are the problem. The denial that we have to put our lives and planet before profit is the problem.
Those on the right who on FoxNews and elsewhere argue that if a vaccin against #coronavirus is developed it shouldn't be provided to everyone for free because that would take away the incentive of companies to develop it are not only morally corrupt but factually wrong
The incentive to make these scientific breakthroughs usually comes from researchers who care for people and science. Companies organise and appropriate their knowledge production. Moreover, almost all scientific advances came from publicly funded and organised institutions
The incentive to help each other is there, the question is, is it used to maximise profit or to provide healthcare to everyone. Yes, all of these would require radical change, such as democratic decisions about investments. We have the resources to make that change, the real
The incentive to make these scientific breakthroughs usually comes from researchers who care for people and science. Companies organise and appropriate their knowledge production. Moreover, almost all scientific advances came from publicly funded and organised institutions
problem is that those resources are controlled by a class that will do everything to stop and destroy any movement to radical changer, rather than putting those resources to the service of overcoming all the social and technological obstacles that change no doubt will confront
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