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Production focused solely on profit, with no concern for the environment, has consequences that are so threatening to the very survival of the human race that international institutions are beginning to take an interest in it in certain areas and to lay down regulations setting, in particular, allowances limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Allowances intended to reduce pollution, however, become in turn commodities that can be bought and sold and turn into
rights to pollute that the richest countries can buy from the poorest.
These allowances-cum-commodities are, to judge by the report, a real headache for Parliament when it comes to determining their ‘market value’
The more extraordinary aspects of this debate illustrate the extent to which we are living in an economic system that does not allow society to control its own economic activity. A self-aware human race with control over its means of production would attempt to satisfy everyone’s needs in the short and long term, while respecting nature. It would have no difficulty in establishing, at a global level, ceilings that must not be exceeded for production that may damage the environment. It is the economic system itself, though, which is blind and stupid, and, Kyoto agreement or not, it constitutes a threat to the future of humanity."@en1
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