The Wall Street Crisis and the Coming Ecological Disaster: Nachrichten of Switzerland

Is the global economic disaster we are living through today just a harbinger of a much more dramatic global ecological collapse to come?

According to Patrik Etschmayer of the Swiss newspaper Nachrichten – the same people that got the world into the present crisis – and that favor John McCain – are driving the world over an ecological cliff.

Etschmayer writes in part:

“What if this crisis was just a prelude – a precursor to a much greater threat – one that could possibly cost millions of lives? The current economic crises was based on the idea that we can live and consume based on credit – and the belief that we can continue to do so unabated as long as we steadfastly ignore the facts and spread the risks widely enough. That idea didn’t fly. Yet its seems that humanity still seems to believe that the things that have failed in the monetary economy, will, in the long run, still apply to the material reality of our world. Quite simply, because nature will not present us with a bill for the resources upon which we depend for our very survival.”

And who are the chief culprits? Etschmayer continues:

“The fact that during the current U.S. election campaign, this insane exploitation of nature has been combined with the dim-witted rejection of scientific evidence being propagated by promoters of one side (of course, by the “Christian” Republican side) is actually quite logical. It’s no coincidence that it is precisely those people who have paved the way for the economic collapse that are still of the opinion that as long as we pray hard enough, everything is possible. But no prayer or contingency plan will contain an ecological collapse once it begins.”

By Patrik Etschmayer

Translated By Ulf Behncke

October 13, 2008

Switzerland – Nachrichten – Original Article (German)

Have you had enough yet of the economic crash? Enough of banks going bust, insurance crisis and widespread economic paranoia? Then you probably feel like most of the rest of us. And even if you feel that the crash is somewhat surreal – you can’t dismiss it out of hand. The extent of the crash and the values that have been wiped out were of preposterous proportions, not least because they were based upon inordinate excess.

But what if this crisis was just a prelude – a precursor to a much greater threat – one that could possibly cost millions of lives? The current economic crises was based on the idea that we can live and consume based on credit – and the belief that we can continue to do so unabated as long as we steadfastly ignore the facts and spread the risks widely enough.

That idea didn’t fly. Yet its seems that humanity still seems to believe that those things that have failed in the monetary economy, will, in the long run, still apply to the material reality of our world. Quite simply, because nature will not present us with a bill for the resources upon which we depend for our very survival.

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