Is Capitalism Killing Us? And a letter from Greenpeace

 New Zealand is part of the "world-wide assault on the environment.". Three out of four of our freshwater  fish "facing extinction in the face."
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The world-wide assault on the environment and its consequences. "It is very difficult to find the truth, because politicians and regulatory authorities are susceptible to bribes and to doing favors for their business friends. In Brazil, lawmakers are actually trying to deregulate pesticide use and to ban the sale of organic food in supermarkets."

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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.

Paul Craig Roberts,Institute for Political Economy, Ottawa, Canada 
[See also the NZ note at the end.] 









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’s Roundup, whose principle ingredient, glyphosate, is believed to be a carcinogen.