{"id":180639,"date":"2017-02-22T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/22\/not-the-sort-of-thing-i-expect-to-see-in-forbes\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T00:08:00","slug":"not-the-sort-of-thing-i-expect-to-see-in-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/22\/not-the-sort-of-thing-i-expect-to-see-in-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Sort of Thing I Expect to See in Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/drewhansen\/2016\/02\/09\/unless-it-changes-capitalism-will-starve-humanity-by-2050\/\">sounds an awful lot like eco-socialism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it\u2019s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/p>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\">Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it\u2019s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Species are going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster than that of the natural rate over the previous 65 million years&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/programs\/biodiversity\/elements_of_biodiversity\/extinction_crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see&nbsp;Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Since 2000, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfacts.org\/en\/forests\/l-3\/2-extent-deforestation.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6 million hectares<\/a> of primary forest have been lost each year. That\u2019s 14,826,322 acres, or just less than the entire state of West Virginia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/40893\/icode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the 2010 assessment by&nbsp;the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/p>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even in the U.S., 15% of the population lives below  the poverty line. For children under the age of 18, that number  increases to 20% (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/hhes\/www\/poverty\/about\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see U.S. Census<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">The world\u2019s population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/population\/un-report-world-population-projected-to-reach-9-6-billion-by-2050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see United Nations&#8217; projections<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">  <span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>  <span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Corporate capitalism is committed to the relentless pursuit of growth, even if it ravages the planet and threatens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chgeharvard.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/182945%20HMS%20Biodiversity%20booklet.pdf\">human health<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">We need to build a new system: one that will balance economic growth with sustainability and human flourishing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I would not be impressed with the article, it&#8217;s advocacy for a sort of techno-utopian viewpoint common among Silicon Valley types who have their hand in your pockets, but I do not expect to see this in <i>Forbes<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s significance is that it appears to indicate a shift in the Overton Window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But this article sounds an awful lot like eco-socialism: Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it\u2019s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale. Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it\u2019s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale. Species are going extinct &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,484,504,382],"class_list":["post-180639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-philosophy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}