• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Everyone pollutes, Capitalists drive the systems that pollute the most and force users to pollute.

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      4 months ago

      It would be the same under communism, the ways we make electricity doesn’t change overnight, either system can change, its about having the demand and the supply to fill it. Also ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGyOL_UwN0 it details how the Soviets caused a lot of environmental damage, pre and post communism.)

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        4 months ago

        Capitalism drives pollution because the cheapest path to profit is also destructive towards the environment, and legislating against the profit motive is difficult because the state serves Capitalists.

        Socialism fixes this by valuing needs and uses over profit.

        The Soviet Union failed to properly implement environmental protections because climate science wasn’t as developed and the Soviet Union was a developing country.