https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/climate-emergency-curtains-for-humanity-world-leaders-wake-up/
The increasing scale and growth-rate of industrialization, are both linked with the global mindset of “economic growth”, which is a pernicious economic ideology spanning across different political ideologies. This is re-inforced by the corporate-led World Economic Forum at Davos, which provides the annual booster-dose of this ideology to the world’s political-economic leaders.
The principal characteristic of this concept of economic growth is that it is designed to be perpetual, unending, and consumptive. Such economic growth consumes its own environmental/ecological resource base, like a cancer.
Industrialization is organized large-scale manufacture/production of goods and services. Societies manufacture/produce or exchange goods within and between themselves. Societies also produce facilities/conveniences for themselves and other societies, in the form of services such as health-care, education, civic services, transportation, etc.
Industrialization is based upon developing, advancing and employing science and technology to promote the ideology of economic growth. It is driven by and also drives the complex system of the oil/energy industry, the banking-finance sector, the extractive mining/quarrying industry, the manufacturing/production industry, the agriculture industry, etc. These are the socio-economic systems of every national economy.
Use and consumption of the products of industrialization create further demand, which boosts the activity of these industrial subsystems, in cyclically increasing “loops” of consuming primary natural resources and generating waste.
The global scale and growth-rate of industrialized production of a vast variety and quantities of goods and services, have three major effects:
# The consumption of humongous quantities of fuel energy and natural resources in production and transportation processes, and consequent gaseous carbon (GW) emissions.
# The expansion of land use for industries and human habitation into forested areas, and consequent deforestation, with large-scale reduction in carbon capture.
# Using land areas and oceans for dumping solid and liquid industrial wastes, and used/unusable industrial products (every single industrial product from staple-pins to aeroplanes is finally waste-garbage-junk at some point in time), thus adversely affecting every form of life in oceans and on land, from microscopic to human. Even the processes of dumping or recycling wastes, demand and consume more energy and create yet more waste, using the ecosystem as the “sink”.
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02/08/2022