Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "DW Documentary" channel.

Thanks for this great reply. I don't want to peddle hopium but all I can say is I know we can find the solutions to these problems. We just have to keep working until we do. Every problem carries with it the seed of a solution. Forcing strict compliance by all companies, private or State-run, is the first step. We can't turn back the clock. All we can do is decide that human welfare, workers, and our communities matter MORE than corporate profit. If we have to extract for the time being, then the most ethical working standards and the least environmentally damaging methods must be enforced. Then, hopefully, we can manage or regenerate any environmental damage sustained during operation of each plant. Sounds like open pit mining could stand to be banned, although that alone isn't enough to mitigate all of mining's impacts.
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Excellent work DW. The solutions are in front of us. It's as you said, the absolute necessity of forcing compliance of mining companies, and all heavy industry, with moral working standards and stringent environmental standards. Until that happens, until govts get morals basically, we will continue to face these problems. It's the same problems the world over. Either the State controls Big Business, or Big Business controls and is catered to by the State - and when that happens we all lose. Incredible salutations and congratulations to that man in Canada who lead the regeneration efforts there. I would love to hear more about that, what kinds of govt cooperation he had, and different stages in the process. What a miraculous project and relevant parties should rush to implement similar projects the world over. I am certain all deteriorated land can be regenerated one way or another, regardless of current condition or how it got that way.
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@noahway13 there's only so much we can do individually. Discussion is the first step. It's possible to run a plant ethically, respecting workers and then environment, but will companies do so without being forced, and will govts enforce it???? So far, in the global South, not much. <sad face>
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Brutal, ruthless, and savage multinational Global Corporate Rule continues. Will it ever end? I wonder. No one more than me wants to see fossil fuels destroyed and driven off this planet forever. Hopefully a full transition to nuclear plus renewables can happen by 2070. This will remove the threat from many local communities around the world. The threat due to hotel expansion however, continues.
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@moonpie1206 what about them?
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@moonpie1206 please learn more about how safe today's nuclear power actually is. There were issues at Fukushima that will not be repeated elsewhere. I have a sweet sweet green energy playlist if you're interested.
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Corporations are destroying this planet. We have to find a way to drive them back to where they came from or they will never stop. They will destroy anything in their path to find more profit. They are addicted to growth and without conscience. They are worst of human greed. SHAME on Chile's government for allowing all this. My heart goes out to all the people of Chile. Their future is being destroyed and thrown in the trash for Western corporate interests. It's the same story all over the world. And do the Chilean people see any of these big beautiful avocado profits??? Has their life improved since the giant plantations came to town??? No of course not. Western economic imperialism and crimes against the people of the Global South continues.
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Tragic. No wonder there's so much unrest in Chile. Their politicians have been bought by vile US multinationals. Very sad. The economic imperialism and plunder of the developing world by the West continues. Sickening. It's so vile what big business does to the world. And Washington DC is behind all of this. But what's new????? Hey Chileans - quick question - WHY DIDN'T YOU VOTE YES ON YOUR NEW CONSTITUTION???? That would have helped put a stop to this. God damn you people are as bad as American voters. You love shooting yourself in the foot. Please stop this. Care more about yourselves. Vote for a president and constitution that puts you first. Or don't and keep getting exploited and plundered by an unholy union between your self-serving govt elites and US corporate interests.
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@tedc7714 sooner or later the human population will level out and probably drop somewhat. So long as people keep dying the population won't shoot up indefinitely.
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@hoppalong-er1xp but there are ways to minimize and mitigate this
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@hoppalong-er1xp well yes most corps will always want more profit but it's up to govt to push back on that. The entire planet can be regenerated with different farming and remediation measures. So long as corporations are reigned in, the earth has a chance.
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@aatirehrarsiddiqui8894 nonsense
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@prophecyrat2965 sure seems that way at times
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That's disgusting but sadly not uncommon. The sociopaths have taken over and have been busy. These business practices simply need to be banned under law. A movement should start to make these kinds of tactics completely illegal. Why should they be allowed??? Workers deserve more protection than that. When you're a high-skilled worker and that doesn't even guarantee you a financially comfortable future, something is extremely wrong. Private large companies need heavy regulation. I don't think any of them have a conscience anymore if they ever did. Seeking extreme profit margins is all they care about. Even skilled workers become disposable to this end. They'll never do the right thing if left up to their devices, they must be forced to.
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@higherHighz yes, but better late than never. Nuclear plus renewables will save the world. Fossil fuels days are numbered.... thank god. And I love diesel, but we just can't do it anymore.
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Chile's government throwing their own people under the bus, not caring if they live or die, for US and Western multinationals. So sad. Disgusting. And all the money leaves the country. The economic plundering of the Global South by predatory US and Western interests continues.
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Western corporate imperialism is almost as ugly as 300-400 years of Western chattel slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. One wonders when it will end. Well it won't. Not if Washington DC has anything to say about it. Until the backs of the predatory multinationals on this planet are broken, all developing nations are at risk from their predation. Western imperialism, resource plunder, Western extraction- it's all the same that's been going on for 500 years. It's pretty fucking sad and it's pretty fucking gross.
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