Monthly Review (October 2004) Capitalism and the Environment by Paul M. Sweezy [pic]It is obvious that humankind has arrived at a crucial turning point in its long history. Nuclear war could terminate the whole human enterprise. But even if this catastrophic ending can be avoided‚ it is by no means certain that the essential conditions for the survival and development of civilized society as we know it today will continue to exist. We live in and from a material environment consisting of land
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Planned Parenthood Many people believe that Planned Parenthood is just a clinic for abortions‚ but in reality it serves a much greater purpose. For nearly 100 years‚ Planned Parenthood has worked to improve women’s health and safety and to advance the right and ability of individuals to manage his or her fertility regardless of income‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ sexual orientation or age. They provide several safe contraception methods‚ reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing
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Do you wonder why your TV is broken after 2 years? This phenomenon is called planned obsolescence. It’s based in 1881 with the first bulb built from Eddison. His first bulb had a lifetime about 2500 hours. After the manufacturing process begin the lifetime sunks to 1000 hours. This is a strategy by the big concerns all over the world. They designed their products with flows. Types of obsolescence are technical or functional‚ systematic programmed‚ style or notification. Technical or functional
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Capitalism is a financially profitable‚ nonsustainable aberration in human development as it doesn’t completely conform to its own accounting principles and liquidates its capital and calls it income (Hawkins & Lovins‚ 1999‚ p. 5). Though this is true‚ the natural resources and living systems‚ as well as the social and cultural systems that are the basis of human capital‚ must be categorized as valuables in a system of natural capitalism due to the neglection of assigning any value to the largest
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About a month ago‚ I applied to become a peer educator at Planned Parenthood. Two weeks ago‚ I got a call saying that I got in‚ and now I have to complete a forty-hour training to become certified. In the past two weeks‚ I have gotten very much criticism for becoming a part of this organization. One thing that some people have said to me is that I am supporting the killing of babies. Many people think that Planned Parenthood is a very evil and inhumane organization‚ when really it is the complete
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Political Ideologies: Socialism Karl Marx- Known as the father of 20th century communism Noora‚ 9E Robert Owen- co founder of socialism Preview Socialism is a term derived from the Latin word ‘socriare’. It means to combine or share. The earliest known socialist pioneers are Robert Owen‚ from Britain and Saint Simon from France (intellectual property has spanned from as earliest as Plato’s Republic [1516]). By the 1830’s these two referred to their ideologies as ‘socialism’ in their respective
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society. Change in the definition of societal classes is often credited to class feeling‚ defining society based on a common source of income (Perkin‚ 176). In the relevance of socialism‚ it is important to understand the most crucial class in economic and political change: the working class. One major cause of socialism in the nineteenth century is related to the increase in population. In 1800‚ Europe’s population consisted of less than 200‚000‚000 people and would increase to around twice that
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United States is a country of immigrants and reconstruction. For many years Americans worked very hard to improve the country’s image and to gain superiority among neighbor countries within the years. “The Jungle”‚ wrote by the American journalist Upton Sinclair tells the story of a poor family that immigrated to the city of Chicago in order to improve their financial economy. However‚ due to life conditions and lack of money their chances of surviving during the Industrial Revolution became minimum
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Contemporary Capitalism We live today in a crucial period in human history‚ of human thinking‚ in which one looks for new criteria‚ new concepts‚ new values and new certainties. The latest crises and the latest tendencies throughout the world have made the economists change their opinion about capitalism‚ the right political system‚ the perfect combination between the political order and the economical order‚ and so on. New tendencies like: globalization‚ regionalism‚ integration‚ and new technology
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development of human society as a whole‚ the research productivity and production shut. Department of the interaction between the economic base and the superstructure of the decisive role of the social development concerns of both It is not the same level of analysis. Second‚ different research methods. Marx takes the method of classical political economy‚ a concern the relationship between a country’s economic development with social and political change‚ with particular emphasis on the progress of backward
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