Free market capitalism is a core problem of the climate change, believes civil rights and community organizer Stephen Bradberry, Executive Director of the Alliance Institute http://theallianceinstitute.org in New Orleans. Capital-dictations exacerbate negative impacts of disasters or simple are the reason for it. Bradberry will illustrate his opinion in the context of “European tolerance talks 2016” particularly with references to the examples of Hurricane Katrina and the oil disaster on the Deepwater Horizon. Exaggerated free market economy and their consequences are responsible ultimately for current migration towards Europe, says Bradberry. Disaster Capitalism “Both the disaster after Katrina and the BP oil spill resulted from the same cause: free market capitalism,” Bradberry stresses in an interview with pressetext news agency. The flooding of New Orleans due to 80 percent to the reluctance of the Bush administration to pay for the preservation of the dike systems. In the case of Deepwater Horizon BP again authorities had allowed certain safety rules can not be met – because of ideology, “that corporate interests outmaneuver human security”. What is known today under the slogan “Climate Change”, is, according to Bradberry an effect precisely this sort of thinking. After all, for quite some time it is known that major industries such as oil and gas or food production can have negative effects on the environment. “But we as the society have just carried on in the name of jobs, business and the like.” Humanity is paying the price for it now in the form of humanitarian crises – for example, the flow of refugees from the Middle East. “The riots, which were known as ‘Arab Spring’, were the result of many food shortages, reduced in connection with droughts and IMF- and World Bank imperatives, social services and insisting on ‘cash crops’ instead of self-sufficiency,” said Bradberry. These factors have forced poor people to move to better neighborhoods. “Coupled with civil war and terrorist activity those homelands cannot fit for the prosperity of the average man any longer” said Bradberry. That leads to that mass migration, which we observe today. “Pushing back these movements is a bad example of blaming the victims.” (pressetext)
