There is an unhealthy prejudice that capitalism, the market, Main cause of global warming. Something unsaid that creeps in especially among climate catastrophists. The market kills, but not as Marx said, as the new religionists of climatism say. The state must therefore take back the means of production in order to prevent the end of the world. Don’t think we’re exaggerating: this happy demise and the environmental justice They are nothing more than different weapons to achieve the same goal, which is to wipe out the market and its organizations that do not know how to “regulate themselves”.
I advise you all to read a file of The Ecologist, if you can find it in a newspaper library, precisely the one from January-February 1990, which begins with a critical letter to Margaret Thatcher and on page 24 has a fabulous essay of contains Zhores A. Medvedev. It is a famous Soviet biologist, dissident, interned in a psychiatric hospital. In his essay he writes about the successes of the centralized and non-market-oriented Soviet model, so to speak: “Due to the radioactive contamination, the Soviet Union lost an area of pastures and agricultural land that is larger than the total area of the Soviet Union.” More land was flooded by hydroelectric dams than the total area of the Netherlands. Between 1960 and 1989, the country lost more land to salinity, changes in groundwater levels, and dust and salt storms than the total agricultural land in Ireland and Belgium combined.
Despite serious food shortages total acreage has declined by a million hectares a year since 1975. The Soviet Union is losing its forests as fast as the rainforests of Brazil are disappearing. In Uzbekistan and Moldova, chemical poisoning with pesticides has led to so many cases of mental retardation that university secondary education programs have had to be modified and simplified. Here’s a little fresco about what happens because of man, but what we good-naturedly define as bureaucrats. And not because of the man we maliciously label industrialist, entrepreneur, bourgeois.
Nicola Porro, Il Giornale 25 June 2023