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S THE NAME IMPLIES SOCIALISM IS BASED ON WHAT IS SOCIAL -ORE PAR TICULARLY IT IS BASED ON DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL INTERACTION OF PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY CREATING THE KIND OF WORLD THEY ENVISION )T IS THE ANTITHESIS OF THE ANTI SOCIAL ECO NOMIC SYSTEM OF CAPITALISM BASED SOLELY ON THE COLD ACQUISITION OF PROl TS 3OCIAL NEEDS THAT ARE MET UNDER CAPITALISM ARE EITHER HIGHLY PROl TABLE OR INCIDENTAL BY PRODUCTS 5NFORTUNATELY THE QUEST FOR THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND IS SERIOUSLY TAXING OUR ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS #APITALISM PUTS THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE MAKING EVERYTHING SUBSERVIENT TO PROl T ACQUISITION 7ITH RESPECT TO OUR COMMU NITY GREEN SPACE FROM AN AESTHETIC AS WELL AS A BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE THIS HAS TAKEN ON ABSURDLY RAPACIOUS PROPORTIONS

3ILT 3PANIARDS -OSQUITOES 4HE 4EXAS 'ULF #OAST WHERE ) GREW UP DOES NOT REST ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF ALONG WITH ABOUT HALF OF THE STATE ITSELF 2ATHER THE LAND MASS IS THE RESULT OF BILLIONS OF YEARS OF OCEANIC INUNDATIONS OF SILT 7HEN THE 3PANIARDS l RST EXPLORED THE 4EXAS 'ULF #OAST IT WAS INHABITED BY THE +ARANKAWA )NDIANS WHO WERE KNOWN TO BE SEMI CAN NIBALISTIC AND TO SMEAR THEIR BODIES DOWN WITH ALLIGATOR BRAINS AS A METHOD OF MOS QUITO REPELLANT !NYONE WHO HAS EVER SPENT THE NIGHT IN 'ALVESTON DURING ONE OF THOSE RARE TIMES WHEN THERE WAS NO WIND WOULD WHOLLY UNDERSTAND THE +ARANKAWA S RESORT TO SUCH DRASTIC MOSQUITO REPELLANTS ) GREW UP IN (OUSTON BUT SPENT A CON SIDERABLE PART OF MY YOUTH AS A BEACH BUM IN 'ALVESTON &REEPORT AND -ATAGORDA 4EXAS BEACHES HAVE ALWAYS HELD A SPECIAL CHARM FOR THIS WRITER 4HEY HAVE A SPECIAL UNIQUENESS IN COMPARISON TO OTHER BEACHES ) VE VISITED !S A HIPPIE YOUTH IN THE S A GROUP OF US WOULD FREQUENTLY CAMP OUT ALL NIGHT ON THE COAST BUILD BONl RES AT NIGHT AND ENJOY THE WIND SUN AND WARM SURF DURING THE DAY 4HE FEW TRINKET SHOPS STORES AND EATING ESTABLISHMENTS WERE AN CIENT -OM N 0OP BUSINESSES OR SEAFOOD RESTAURANTS WITH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

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)T SADDENS THIS WRITER TO KNOW SUCH WON DERS ARE FALLING TO THE UNFEELING BLADE OF PROl TEERING 4O RUIN A BEAUTIFUL PATCH OF LAND THAT TOOK BILLIONS OF YEARS OF OCEANIC INUNDATIONS TO CREATE WITH THE CONSTRUC TION OF A 7AL -ART OR A -C$ONALD S IS SYMPTOMATIC OF #APITALIST VALUES .O REVERENCE IS PAID TO NATURE S WONDERS THE MAGIC OF A SUNRISE ON THE BEACH THE SOUND OF THE WIND AND THE WAVES NOR THE DIS COVERY OF SAND DOLLARS AND STARl SH STREWN ALONG THE SHORES )TS VISION IS LIMITED TO THE QUEST FOR PROl T /NLY THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD BASED ON TRUE HUMAN VALUES CAN PROTECT AND PRESERVE THESE ECOLOGICAL TREASURES #APITALISM CAN NEVER PRESERVE THE NATURAL STATE OF THE EARTH WHEN DOING SO WOULD STAND IN THE WAY OF PROl T 7E MUST CREATE A SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT WILL STEM THE CAPITALIST TRAJECTORY TOWARD ECOCIDE 4HE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIALISM IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THIS CRITICAL PROBLEM — KG

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N A DISCUSSION OF OVERPOPULATION IN #APITAL VOL -ARX CITES THE OPINION OF ECONOMISTS IN HIS DAY WHO PREACHED THAT A LARGE SURPLUS WORKING CLASS POPULA TION WAS ACTUALLY A CONDITION OF m EXIBILITY REQUIRED BY CAPITAL TO ALLOW EMPLOYERS TO MOVE QUICKLY WHEN HIRING AND l RING AND THUS KEEP AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION 1 Malthus’s explanation of the allegedly “geometrical� tendency of population to increase, as against the supposedly “arithmetical� increase of land under cultivation, Marx dismisses as “narrow.� For the most part, Marx treats overpopulation as a by-product of the capitalist mode of production, not as yet another devilish horror from capitalism’s catalogue of social evils.2 “Population is an abstraction,� he says, “if one disregards the classes of which it is composed.�3 As if to challenge this idea, a recent “call for action� appearing on the Internet by activist, structural geologist, science writer, journalist and novelist Dale Allen Pfeiffer invites us to consider a special, terminal case of overpopulation. Pfeiffer, writing about population in relation to energy production, foresees as an imminent material possibility the end of civilization as we know it and a catastrophic decline in human numbers, barring immediate recognition of the unsustainability of capitalist production, the population levels that have become

dependent on it and the redesign of our entire civilization. He calls for input from both specialists and “people of limited means� into a projected socioeconomic and ecological redesign of present-day communities “to ease their transition into a post-technological world.�4

! .ATION OF /IL *UNKIES Capital, he argues, has become an oil junky sucking hydrocarbons out of the earth so voraciously that within the next few years it will reach the point of diminishing returns: past the “break-even point,� it will require more energy to extract oil and natural gas than is available for consumption, forcing world hydrocarbon production to gradually shut down. No form of society, capitalist or socialist, can rationally plan to use more energy than it produces, since it will eventually consume all its own energy supplies in the process. But since the experts he cites indicate that none of the alternatives to fuel production even comes close “separately or in combination� to duplicating oil’s “bang for the buck,� this crisis of oil will generate rapidly escalating prices and struggles over dwindling oil resources, followed by a forced and sudden drop in energy supplies on a planet that at this juncture has largely tied up most of its energy options.

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Once oil production shuts down, what happens? Ultimately, the world we know begins to unravel. Nothing new directly or indirectly requiring the use of oil or gas in its production will be available any longer — machinery, buildings, factories, houses, food, heating and cooling technology, plastics, maintenance services dependent on oil and so on. Electricity on the scale that we know it today will be out the question. Jet travel, computer technology, global communications — all will face the axe. As a consequence of and closely following this vast contraction of markets, an unprecedented “die-off â€? of human beings will commence on a scale ultimately surpassing that of the Black Death, which killed 40 percent of Europe’s population between 1347 and 1350.5 Pfeiffer’s prediction is as laconic as it is dramatic: 8JUIJO UIF OFYU GJWF UP UFO ZFBST <J F > PVS FOFSHZ CBTF XJMM CFHJO UP DPOUSBDU JSSFWFSTJCMZ € 8F DVSSFOUMZ MJWF JO UIF PQV MFODF PG UIF PJM BHF &BDI PG VT IBT UIF FOFSHZ FRVJWBMFOU PG TPNF TMBWFT UP EP PVS XPSL GPS VT BOE UP QBNQFS VT XJUI BMM PG UIF MBUFTU UFDIOPMPHJDBM DPNGPSUT € WJSUVBMMZ BMM PG PVS JOEVTUSJBM QSPDFTTFT BSF SVO CZ UIF FOFSHZ PG IZESPDBSCPOT ĂˆĂŠĂŠ

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ogy rather than economic class causes him to underestimate both the political nature of the problem and its solution.8 Then again, if he is even remotely correct, the Left is certain to be catapulted to power as the crisis grows, becoming the new status quo at the expense of failed corporate oligarchs. (The job of the Left, generally, is to muddy the waters trying to save capitalism.) We humans, with our rather complicated brains, have proven ourselves master survivors, even if at the expense of other life-forms. Our upbringing under capitalism has conditioned us to attribute this success to technology, but a factor that explains it much better is the centrality of the human community — up, that is, till the advent of civilization (markets and the division of society into economic classes), which historically displaced communities as the drivers of progress. Over the course of several millennia, ruling-class reliance on markets has reduced the world’s communities to marginal outposts, substituting state authority for that of the community whenever possible; and in this sense, the capitalist revolution has finally devoured its parents. The more doctrinaire economists would now like to flatten out the state entirely, so that capitalist entities might govern directly. The survival of the human species, however, will not be guaranteed by limiting population or prescribing technological cures, but by allowing our natural sense of community to work out its own solutions. One of the dubious trade-offs of intellectual progress has unfortunately

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Perhaps the most debilitating drawback of civilization, as the division of communities into arenas of class conflict, is its asphyxiating effect on the transmission of social memory. Class-divided societies inhibit or even actively discourage the transmission of community-based survival knowledge by steeping the majority at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid in ignorance and confining access to heightened levels of intellectual exploration to the small Êlites known as ruling classes. Naturally, these tiny minorities cannot handle the monumental task imposed on them, but then civilization itself began as the work of self-assured Êlites anchored in the privileged convergence of inter-community trade and private property in agriculture. Civilizations start to lose their memories at birth: the invention of writing, which accompanied the emergence of class conflict, paradoxically sealed the majority’s denial of access to community memories of the distant past. On the other hand, we cannot rationally propose to go back to a vanished world of isolated, technologically primitive communities, even though capitalism could be setting us up for the implosion of civilization. What to do, then? The answer is both elegant and simple: we must now (re)think our way out of our economic-class mentality. Communities that can control the wealth they produce for the benefit of their members will by the same token be able to enhance their own ability to retain the lessons of the past — but with the forward-looking edge conferred by science.

#APITAL 5NDERMINES #OMMUNITY Agriculture, which may have unhinged human society from its narrow subjection to the limits of nature, also served, ultimately, as humanity’s bridge to global community. Capitalism is merely the last phase of community self-destruction — a demolition that has been thousands of years in the making. We do not even have to want world community anymore, because it is all we have left. Clinging to capitalism is about to lead us down a slippery slope of decline, and if the process should go as far as Pfeiffer believes, the

very best we could hope for would be a regression of homo sapiens to the level of the barbarian kingdoms predating the slave empires of antiquity — no future to wish on our descendants, and possibly even a kind of atherosclerotic portent. Abolishing agriculture and technology would in the final analysis amount to giving up on the possibility of laying the foundations of a worldwide community of communities. Socialism — common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of society as a whole — is that worldwide community, and only it can save the planet from capitalism. Capital, however kind and gentle, remains an unmanageable beast indifferent to human needs and human survival. Its own supporters appeal to the arbitration of the marketplace, binding human intelligence itself to the consequences of its own creation: perhaps the ultimate failure of human instincts.

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We are committed to one overriding goal: the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a truly democratic, socialist form of society. Accordingly, membership in the World Socialist Party requires a general understanding of the basic prin ci ples of sci en tif ic socialism and agreement with the Declaration of Principles. It is our view that a worldwide system of production for the satisfaction of human needs, individual and social, rath er than for private profit requires a majority that is socialist in attitude and commitment. Events since the beginning of the World Socialist Movement have demonstrated the validity of this judgment.

Since our fundamental goal is quite firmly defined as the attainment of socialism it is important that mem bers un der stand and accept our principles. To dilute the principles with reformist tendencies or advocacy of the undemocratic idea of “leadership,� for example, would be to subvert the Party’s reason for being. That said, we recognize there is room for differences of opinion in a socialist par ty. In con trast to principles, relatively few in num ber, there are a mul ti plic i ty of mat ters upon which socialists may have all kinds of conflicting views. If you agree with the following statements, you are a socialist and you belong with us.

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• Control of State Power 4O ESTABLISH SOCIALISM THE WORK ING CLASS THROUGH OUT THE WORLD MUST GAIN CON TROL OF THE POW ERS OF GOV ERN MENT THROUGH PO LIT I CAL OR GA NI ZA TION )T IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS CON TROL OF STATE POWER THAT THE CAP I TAL IST CLASS IS ABLE TO PER PET U ATE ITS SYSTEM )N A MOD ERN HIGHLY DEVELOPED CAP I TAL IST SO CI ETY THE ONLY WAY TO OUST THE CAP I TAL IST CLASS FROM OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF THE MEANS OF PRO DUC TION IS TO l RST STRIP IT OF ITS CONTROL OVER THE STATE AS A PRECONDITION FOR CON VERT ING IT FROM A COERCIVE POWER TO AN AD MIN IS TRA TIVE ARM OF THE COM MU NI TY 4HE 7ORLD 3O CIAL IST 0AR TY THERE FORE ADVOCATES THE BALLOT AS THE MEANS OF ABOL ISH ING CAP I TAL ISM AND ES TAB LISH ING SO CIAL ISM SINCE SO CIAL ISM CAN ONLY BE ES TAB LISHED DEM O CRAT I CAL LY MEANS CAN NOT BE SEP A RAT ED FROM ENDS

• Reforms and Reformism 4HE PRESENT CAPITALIST SO CI ETY EVEN WITH hRE PAIRv AND RE FORM BY ITS VERY NATURE CAN NOT FUNC TION IN THE IN TER ESTS OF THE WORK ING CLASS WHO MAKE UP THE MA JOR I TY OF THE POP U LA TION IN MOST OF THE WORLD TO DAY 2E FORMS CAN NEVER ALTER THE BASIC EX PLOIT ATIVE RE LA TION SHIP OF WAGE LABOR AND CAPITAL OR PRO DUC TION FOR PROl T #APITALISM COULD NEVER GET BY WITHOUT THEM 7HAT EV ER THE IN TEN TIONS OF REFORMERS SOCIALISTS RECOGNIZE THE FUTILITY OF THEIR ATTEMPTS AND DIRECT THEIR EFFORTS ONLY TO THE COMPLETE ABOLISHMENT OF CAPITALISM 4HE 7ORLD 3O CIAL IST 0ARTY DOES NOT AD VO CATE RE FORMS OF CAP I TAL ISM ˆ ONLY SO CIAL ISM

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TOTAL SALES OF BILLION WHICH IS ALMOST UCTS AS ONE OF THE BENEl TS OF PROGRESS AND HALF OF WORLDWIDE SALES #ONSIDERING THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT QUANTITY OF DRUGS THIS REPRESENTS ONE HAS 1UICK &IXES !RE UPER TO WONDER HOW MUCH ACTUAL CHEMICAL "UT RARELY THE DO TRUE BELIEVERS IN CAPI PRODUCT IS REACHING THE ENVIRONMENT TALIST AND CONSUMERIST CULTURE EVER STOP 3O HOW ARE 00#0S RELEVANT TO THE TO CONSIDER THE COSTS BORNE IN PRODUCING ACHIEVEMENT OF SOCIALISM ! SECOND LOOK THE MODERN MARVELS THEY JUST CAN T DO AT THE TOP SELLING DRUGS MENTIONED MAKES WITHOUT /NCE IT GOES DOWN THE DRAIN IT ONE WONDER HOW MUCH THE EXISTENCE AND BECOMES SOMEONE ELSE S PROBLEM OR SIMPLY PREVALENCE OF THESE DRUGS ARE A RESULT OF DISAPPEARS 4HIS KIND OF MINDSET CANNOT THE UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLES WE ARE TRAPPED IN EXIST IN SOCIALISM THE EMPHASIS ON SUS AS A RESULT OF CAPITALIST CONSUMER SOCIETY TAINABILITY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF PRODUCTION *UST WHY IS THERE SUCH A DEMAND FOR THESE FOR USE AND NOT PROl T WILL CAUSE SOCIETY DRUGS OR RATHER WHY ARE PEOPLE SO SICK /R TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER HOW TO PROVIDE A ARE THEY (OW MUCH PRESCRIBING IS DONE STANDARD OF LIVING THAT PRODUCES THE BEST NOWADAYS TO AVOID FUTURE RESPONSIBILITY QUALITY OF LIFE FOR EVERYONE WHILE USING OR CULPABILITY IF A PATIENT DIES OR AS THE THE LEAST POSSIBLE LABOR AND PRODUCING RESULT OF FAVORS AND KICKBACKS FROM THE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF WASTE (OPEFULLY PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY 0ERHAPS THESE INSTEAD OF MAKEUP SUNSCREEN 6ASOTEC PROBLEMS ARE SYMPTOMS OF A SOCIETY THAT AND 6IAGRA BEING WASHED DOWN THE PIPES ALWAYS LOOKS FOR A QUICK l X WITHOUT WE CAN INSTEAD WATCH GREED VANITY AND REGARDS TO THE CONSEQUENCES 0EOPLE GEN TOXIC LIFESTYLES FOLLOW THE SAME SWIRLY PATH ERALLY CONSIDER THE EXISTENCE OF MODERN INTO OBLIVION PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PROD — Tony Pink

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RISK OF EXPOSURE TO THE CHEMICALS IN SUNBLOCK h4HE REALITY IS THAT THE 56 RAYS ARE MORE DANGEROUS NOW THAN THEY WERE YEARS AGO BECAUSE OF LACK OF CONCERN ABOUT PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT v ,ATER ) WAS CHASTISED BY MY BOSS FOR hNOT MAINTAINING AN UPBEAT AT MOSPHERE v 3OME OF THE MOTHERS HAD BEEN DISTURBED BY WHAT ) SAID "UT ) COULDN T HELP IT MY 2. HAT HAT HAD FALLEN OFF AND BEEN REPLACED BY MY 3OCIALIST HAT ) WISH IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CONNECT THE DESIRE OF MOTHERS TO PROTECT THEIR BABIES TO THE DESIRE TO PROTECT HUMANITY ITSELF 7HAT GOOD DOES IT DO TO MAINTAIN AN UPBEAT ATTITUDE FEELING GOOD AS WE APPLY THE TOXIC SUNBLOCK IGNORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SKIN CANCER RISK AND CAPITALIST DISREGARD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT ) WISH ) COULD HELP THESE NEW MOMS RECOGNIZE THAT THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT THEIR BABIES IS BY WORKING FOR SOCIALISM — RN

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SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTED INTO hEATER v 4HE REST IS WASTE IN THE FORM OF UNEATABLE OR INDIGESTIBLE MATTER AND HEAT ENERGY LOST DURING CHEMICAL CONVERSION 4HEREFORE IT TAKES ABOUT TEN POUNDS OF PLANTS TO PRODUCE ONE POUND OF ANIMAL AND TEN POUNDS OF ANIMAL TO PRODUCE ONE POUND OF HUMAN OR OTHER CARNIVORE

! (APPY AND ,IVABLE 0LANET ! LITTLE MATH TELLS ME THAT IF ) WAS A CARNIVORE IT WOULD TAKE X X POUNDS OF VEGETABLE MATTER TO PRODUCE A MEAT EATING VERSION OF ME BUT ONLY POUNDS TO PRODUCE ME AS AN HERBIVORE !BANDONING MEAT AS A FOOD SOURCE CAN OPTIMALLY INCREASE THE NUTRI TIVE CAPACITY OF AGRICULTURE TEN TIMES THUS REDUCING OUR DEPENDENCE ON IT 7HEN SOCIALISM ROLLS AROUND THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE AND HUNGER WILL SURELY BE BOTH PRIMARY GOALS FOR THE CREATION OF A HAPPY AND LIVABLE PLANET ! SOCIALIST FUTURE LIKE THE ONE ) DREAM ABOUT WILL ALSO HAVE A LOT LESS PAIN AND SUFFERING THAN THE CURRENT OFFERING ) VE DONE MY HOMEWORK AND WITHOUT GETTING INTO DETAILS ) CAN SAY THAT THERE IS A LOT OF THAT GOING ON IN THE MEAT INDUSTRIES 0LANTS IN CONTRAST DON T FEEL PAIN 4HEY CANNOT FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE BRAINS OR ANY NERVOUS SYSTEMS AT ALL !ND NO THE COWS AND PIGS ARE NOT GOING TO REPRODUCE OUT OF CONTROL IF WE STOP USING THEM FOR FOOD 4HERE ARE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AS WELL THE MOST SERIOUS OF WHICH IS THE POLLUTION CAUSED BY THE WASTES OF ANIMALS GROWN FOR FOOD 4HIS HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE AND USU ALLY UNTREATED LIVESTOCK WASTE IS DUMPED INTO THE NEAREST BODY OF WATER UNLIKE HUMAN WASTE WHICH IS IN MOST CASES REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE TREATED BEFORE RELEASE INTO THE ENVIRONMENT 4HE IMPACTS OF FARM ANIMAL WASTE ARE SIGNIl CANT ) M NOT GOING TO QUOTE STATIS TICS SO YOU CAN RESEARCH THIS IF YOU WANT 4HE IMPACT OF FERTILIZER IS EVEN GREATER HOWEVER THIS PROBLEM

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DOES NOT COMPLETELY GO AWAY IF MEATY DIETS EVENTUALLY DISAPPEAR &ERTILIZER WILL STILL BE NECESSARY TO GROW CROPS BUT MINDFUL SOCIALISTS WILL NOT BE FORCED BY THE PRESSURE OF THE MARKET TO PRODUCE THE MOST THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST ONLY THAT WHICH IS NEEDED 4HEY CAN TAKE CARE THAT THE EFFECTS OF THE FERTILIZER THEY DO USE ARE REDUCED AND MONITORED BY CAREFUL FARMING PRACTICES EFFORTS MADE EASIER BY A COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL MODEL AND NOT A COMPETITIVE ONE -EAT PROCESSING FACILI TIES HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AS WELL 3INCE IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CAPITALISM TO MAINTAIN CLEAN AND EFl CIENT SLAUGH TERHOUSES THOSE PLACES REMAIN VECTORS FOR DISEASE AND CONTAMINATION 3HOC KUMENTARIES STILL POP ON THE TUBE EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE REMINDING US HOWEVER INEFFECTIVELY HOW l LTHY MEAT PROCESSING ACTUALLY IS )N SUM THE BENEl TS OF A VEGETARIAN SOCI ETY CAN GO HAND IN HAND WITH THE DESIRES OF A SOCIALIST SOCIETY ! WIDESPREAD VEGETARIAN LIFESTYLE CAN PLAY A SIGNIl CANT ROLE IN REDUC ING ENERGY DEMANDS PAIN AND SUFFERING AND THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURE ON THE ENVIRONMENT 4HE ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDICAL IMPACTS OF A MEAT CENTERED CULTURE ARE WELL DOCUMENTED EVEN IF THEY ARE GENERALLY IGNORED AND EVEN THOUGH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS MAY BE HARDER TO MEASURE THEY STILL CONTRIBUTE IN MY OPINION TO MAKING THE WORLD A LITTLE MORE VIOLENT THAN IT NEEDS TO BE — TP

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MENTS TO OUR EMPLOYERS THAT MAY NOT BE SO CASUALLY BY PASSED !ND IN CAPITALISM EVEN RELIEF EFFORTS ARE SUBJECT TO THE WELFARE AGENCIES BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS %VER HEARD OF THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF STARVING AND ILL CHILDREN WHO DIE EACH AND EVERY YEAR AROUND THE WORLD FOR WHOM THERE IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO GO AROUND 7HILE RELIEF FOR THOSE LEFT IN .EW /RLEANS WAS CERTAINLY OFFERED BY THE 2ED #ROSS AND EVENTU ALLY BY THE STATE NOBODY ON TELEVISION ASKED THE PER TINENT QUESTION OF WHETHER IT IS SANE OR EVEN EFFECTIVE TO MEET CRITICAL HUMAN NEEDS DEPENDING UPON HOW MUCH MONEY OR HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS MAY BE ASSEMBLED 7HAT IF THOSE OF YOU DONATING A FEW DOLLARS AT SUPERMARKETS FOR +ATRINA VICTIMS SIMPLY DON T RAISE ENOUGH $OES THAT MEAN THAT THE PLIGHT OF THOSE STRUCK BY DISASTER IS ENTIRELY THE RESULT OF YOUR PERSONAL FAILURES OR OF A SOCIETY IN WHICH WEALTH IS PRODUCED ONLY TO BE SOLD AND NOT TO MEET OUR NEEDS 3OCIALISTS THINK THE LATTER .OBODY ON TELEVISION ASKED WHETHER BY RIGHTS THE WEALTH OF SOCIETY SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATICALLY DUE TO ALL INDIVIDUALS 4HUS THE MILLION .EW /RLEANERS WITH HOMES TRAGICALLY DESTROYED SUDDENLY ENTER INTO THAT CATEGORY OF hHOMELESS v THOSE WITHOUT THE MONETARY MEANS TO BUY OR RENT HOUSING .OBODY ON THE .EEDS OF THE DIRE AND DESPERATE KIND IDIOT BOX ASKED THE MOST OBVIOUS QUESTION OF ALL 7HY SHOULDN T .OBODY ON TELEVISION ASKED THE MOST SALIENT QUESTION OF ALL HOMES BE AVAILABLE TO ANYBODY WHO NEEDS THEM 3HOULD PEOPLE STRUCK BY TERRIBLE TRAGEDY BE VICTIMS OF CHAR 7AS +ATRINA A h#ATASTROPHIC !LTERATIONv ITY AT ALL OR SHOULD THEY INSTEAD BE AUTOMATICALLY ENTITLED TO SOCIETY S WEALTH SIMPLY BY DEMONSTRATING CLEAR CUT NEEDS FOR ! SECOND GLARING OMISSION CONCERNS THE SEVERITY OF THE STORM HOMES HYGIENE FOOD CLOTHES AND COMFORT 3INCE OUR SOCIETY ITSELF -ANY SCIENTISTS AROUND THE WORLD ARE NOW CONVINCED AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED IS NOT GEARED TOWARD THE SATISFACTION THAT THE ECOLOGICAL DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY MODERN SOCIETY HAS OF OUR NEEDS BUT RATHER TOWARD THE SALE OF GOODS AND SERVICES PLAYED ITS PART IN ALTERING GLOBAL WEATHER PATTERNS EVEN WHILE TO YIELD PROl TS IT HAS PROVED ITSELF DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS AND OWNERS OF POLLUTING INDUSTRY DENY OF MEETING NEEDS OF THE DIRE AND DESPERATE KIND NEEDS THAT SUCH HYPOTHESES AND TRY HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM BEING DISCUSSED MATERIALIZED HARD ON THE HEELS OF +ATRINA "UT HEY THERE ARE IN THE MEDIA ANOTHER GOOD REASON FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY WITH ALREADY MILLIONS OF HOMELESS AND POOR PEOPLE IN THE 5NITED THE MEANS OF INFORMATION IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE 3TATES WHO ARE NOT ENTITLED TO THOSE VAST NUMBERS OF EMPTY 4ROPICAL FORESTS ARE VANISHING AT THE RATE OF CITY SIZES PER HOMES AWAITING PURCHASE SO WHY ARE THESE VICTIMS OF EXTREME DAY ICE IS MELTING AT THE POLAR CAPS STORMS ARE INCREASING AND WEATHER ANY MORE FORTUNATE WORSENING TEMPERATURES ARE RISING OZONE LEVELS ARE DIMINISH (AD YOU OR ) DECIDED TO BY PASS THE SLEEPING GOVERNMENT ING 1UITE A FEW SCIENTISTS HAVE MADE CALCULATIONS THAT IF PRES AND SIMPLY PICK UP A COUPLE OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AND DROP ENT LEVELS OF ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION CONTINUE UNABATED FOR THE THEM OFF IN ANOTHER TOWN WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO DO SO ONLY NEXT TEN TWENTY OR THIRTY YEARS THEN CATASTROPHIC ALTERATIONS IN BY TAKING TIME OFF WORK -OST OF US AS WORKERS HAVE COMMIT

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