{"id":36776,"date":"2018-08-18T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36776"},"modified":"2018-08-18T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:00:34","slug":"is-capitalism-killing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36776","title":{"rendered":"Is Capitalism Killing Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Capitalism Killing Us?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss.<\/p>\n

External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial corporations, corporate farming, city sewer systems, and other culprits have passed the costs of their activities onto the environment and third parties. Recently, there has been a spate of reports with many centering on Monsanto\u2019s Roundup, whose principle ingredient, glyphosate, is believed to be a carcinogen.<\/p>\n

A public health organization, the Environmental Working Group, recently reported that its tests found glyphosate in all but 2 of 45 children\u2019s breakfast foods including granola, oats and snack bars made by Quaker, Kellogg and General Mills. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/aug\/16\/weedkiller-cereal-monsanto-roundup-childrens-food <\/a><\/p>\n

In Brazil tests have discovered that 83% of mothers\u2019 breast milk contains glyphosate. https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazil-Poisonous-Agrotoxin-Found-Over-80-of-Breast-Milk-Samples-in-Urucui-20180809-0008.html <\/a><\/p>\n

The Munich Environmental Institute reported that 14 of the most widely selling German beers contain glyphosate. https:\/\/sustainablepulse.com\/2016\/02\/25\/german-beer-industry-in-shock-over-probable-carcinogen-glyphosate-contamination\/#.W3XKtC-ZOGQ <\/a><\/p>\n

Glyphosate has been found in Mexican farmers\u2019 urine and in Mexican ground water. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5486281\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

Scientific American<\/em> has reported that even Roundup\u2019s \u201cinert ingredients can kill human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells.\u201d
\nhttps:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/weed-whacking-herbicide-p\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

A German toxicologist has accused the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and the European Food Safety Authority of scientific fraud for accepting a Monsanto-led glyphosate Task Force conclusion that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. https:\/\/gmwatch.org\/en\/news\/latest-news\/17307-german-toxicologist-accuses-eu-authorities-of-scientific-fraud-over-glyphosate-link-with-cancer<\/a><\/p>\n

Controversy about these findings comes from the fact that industry-funded scientists report no link between glyphosate and cancer, whereas independent scientists do. This is hardly surprising as an industry-funded scientist has no independence and is unlikely to conclude the opposite of what he is hired to conclude.<\/p>\n

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Is Capitalism Killing Us? Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss. External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[111,14602,1647,4549,2951,638,681],"class_list":["post-36776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-capitalism","tag-externalities","tag-finite-resources","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-pollution","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36777,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36776\/revisions\/36777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}