Environmentalism
Written by Damoon
At present, earth itself and, in turn, the human race is faced with a predicament of immense proportions, a seemingly impenetrable dilemma: the current deterioration and imminent destruction of earth's biosphere.
First of all, the existence of this plight warrants no debate. This lethal crisis not only is a hazard to earth's current generation of living inhabitants, but also it denotes an untimely fate to earth's innocent and unborn posterity. Hence, one must ask: from where does this lethal crisis stem? Or, better yet, what took place during the past century, and what is currently taking place, that brought a minority of nations to their present economic, technological, scientific, military, and political global dominancy? It is critical to mention that all research on this topic reveals that these few nations have consistently been the chief contributors of earth's environmental corrosion. In any case, fully expounding upon the abovementioned questions, of course, exceeds the limitations of such articles as this one. But, in brief, one must recognize the environmentally detrimental consequences of such historical phenomena as industrialization, merely a single example out of a multitude.
Industrialization would have been impossible to attain without the thorough exploitation of earth's raw materials, such as coal and petroleum. These materials were first employed to construct the industrial infrastructures of currently wealthy nations, and subsequently, used to operate these nations' productive machinery itself, which, in turn, largely produced and produces such polluting commodities as locomotives and automobiles. Sadly, every last step of the abovementioned process required and requires the expulsion of destructive chemical compounds into earth's atmosphere. Just with this imperative example, it comes to see that the present environmental crisis is simply an inherent repercussion of anarchic production and overproduction; it is inherent to the system of exploitation for profit. Thus, in order to solve this problem, social artillery must be aimed precisely at the heart of the matter: the economic and social system of individualistic and hedonistic competition and cash payment. Fundamental restructuring is necessary to truly reverse the wounding trend of environmental degeneration.
Disregard the devious rhetoric of pretentious politicians and debase the deluding slogans of phony environmentalists. Genuine environmentalism can only mean the assault of the fundamental cause of the earth's deterioration and destruction, the system of exploitation for profit, and no politician or environmentalist of the generic, or affluent, sort will ever assault that. Evidently, current environmentalist activity basically casts the majority of the blame for earth's ruin upon the common person, and not upon those who are fundamentally to blame, profiteering entities, or enormous corporations. Yes, current activism, in the vein of Al Gore's, calls for a meager extent of governmental regulations upon environmentally hazardous corporations, which would engender sparse positive outcomes, but it comes to see that acknowledging and ultimately assaulting the primary cause, preposterous overproduction and anarchic production natural to the system of lucrative exploitation, undeniably will result in the complete halt of earth's environmental devastation. Any other method is purposely incapable and inescapably doomed to failure.
