Vertical Wipe Out
Scramble Competition - an ecology concept, in my view could be applied to humans as well where top 1% richest own 50% of total wealth => control over 50% of all human-usable resources on earth. With such huge inequalities, rest of the 99% suffer, which might lead to the lack of access to "chances of life" and lack of employment, academic inflation => inability to marry at the right age etc. This can affect overall fertility of the populations of the countries. Can also affect ability of 99% population to have access to quality-life, thereby weakening the 99% genetic pool physically and psychologically and thereby, in the long run, wipe out the traces particular genetic make-ups - community wise or kinship-wise or race-wise, one by one, thereby reducing overall genetic diversity and thus making entire human race epidemic prone. This could lead to extinction of human race. So relating "uncontrolled" capitalism fueled extinction of human race is not so difficult to see.
Lateral Wipe Out
While "Scramble Competition" explains how humans could go extinct with one group aggressively competing with another group of the same generation for a hold over natural resources, over-exploitation of resources by the present generation so much so that nothing is left for the future generations is what I call as lateral wipe out. Brundtland Commission was appointed by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1983 coined the term "Sustainable Development" to draw attention to this very problem.
Scramble Competition - an ecology concept, in my view could be applied to humans as well where top 1% richest own 50% of total wealth => control over 50% of all human-usable resources on earth. With such huge inequalities, rest of the 99% suffer, which might lead to the lack of access to "chances of life" and lack of employment, academic inflation => inability to marry at the right age etc. This can affect overall fertility of the populations of the countries. Can also affect ability of 99% population to have access to quality-life, thereby weakening the 99% genetic pool physically and psychologically and thereby, in the long run, wipe out the traces particular genetic make-ups - community wise or kinship-wise or race-wise, one by one, thereby reducing overall genetic diversity and thus making entire human race epidemic prone. This could lead to extinction of human race. So relating "uncontrolled" capitalism fueled extinction of human race is not so difficult to see.
Lateral Wipe Out
While "Scramble Competition" explains how humans could go extinct with one group aggressively competing with another group of the same generation for a hold over natural resources, over-exploitation of resources by the present generation so much so that nothing is left for the future generations is what I call as lateral wipe out. Brundtland Commission was appointed by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1983 coined the term "Sustainable Development" to draw attention to this very problem.
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