@breadandcircuses

I know you're being a bit whimsical with your wording, but I'll take the bait. Please don't take this critique personally, but as I'm sure you intend, it's very like the discussions one actually does hear a lot. Particularly:

> a very small price to pay for endless economic growth

The word "endless" is the tell here. Often if you look in these discussions there's some outright non-truth that we bat around as if true when it's not, and that's how we confuse ourselves.

We haven't had a serious societal discussion about the fact that this can't be endless, or what the consequences an end is. It's a finite world, and the presence of clean drinking water is ever more in jeopardy.

http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2019/09/losing-ground-in-environment.html

#environment #capitalism #externality #oil #water #DrinkingWater #OilSpill #OiilSpills