Quote Originally Posted by Takeovers View Post
You point to a real and serious problem. But you are wrong blaming it on the capitalist economy. I am looking at former communist Germany, the DDR. They should have had a grip on environmental issues as they were not driven by capitalism. But really it was a disaster area. Pollution on a magnitude not conceivable in the advanced western societies.
I quite disagree with you. Although surely not always as per good standards of environmental protection, in the view of some remote areas of North America, Canada where a huge disasters on a great scale have been happening over decades. Many links to those problems there can be find, although not very much publicized...