Do You Really Want to Save the Earth? After the Climate March, Flood Wall Street!

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http://www.alternet.org/occupy-wall-street/want-save-earth-nevermind-climate-march-flood-wall-street



This is a critical week for the planet. On Sunday, the People's Climate March is expected to be the largest environmental march in history. But it would be a grave mistake, for the planet and for ourselves, to overlook another event that is to take place on Monday. That's when the Flood Wall Street rally will target the role of global capitalism in our environmental crisis.

The profit economy is a root cause -- make that the root cause -- of climate change.

Wall Street is, in a very real sense, the epicenter of our environmental crisis. To ignore that fact is to risk dooming our other climate efforts to failure, or to use them merely as palliatives for troubled consciences. There's no other way to say this: Capitalism, as practiced on Wall Street today, is an existential threat to humanity.

To make that statement is not necessarily to issue a jeremiad against capitalism in all its forms. The danger comes not from commerce itself, but from the extraordinary concentration of wealth and power that has accrued in recent decades to corporations and their Wall Street investors. This has led in turn to an ideological shift that has entirely captured the GOP and has seized large portions of the Democratic Party as well.

[malaise]

1. Where can I watch the protests today?

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2. good question. i don't know. nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017216417

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. I swear. If I see Cuomo or any of these other political parasites marching today...

... their pockets stuffed w. Wall Street $$$$.... I am going to *vomit*.

K and R

[RadicalGeek]

4. And After Wall Street

The Ballot Box!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. They left out the middle step: higher living standards at every centile.

Capitalism has lead to higher material living standards at every centile, especially the lower ones, than ever before.

That, in essence - more people being able to have cars, and fridges, and electric lights, and so on - is what is causing climate change.