Capitalism

I believe any economic system - capitalism, socialism, whatever- which distances human beings from their subsistence in nature is going to be prone to exploitation of nature, including other humans and other animals. It's a fundamental separation of cause from effect which allows factory farms, wage slavery, toxic waste etc to happen. If every person was (re)connected to nature such things could not happen - in the same way as most people would struggle to saw off their own leg...

I think every act of consumption in the context of our economic system is inevitably corrupt: someone, some animal, some part of nature has been destroyed to manufacture the thing you are buying.

Capitalism can never be reformed - if you try and moderate the process it just does it less well. Capitalism is a magnificent machine into which we pour the earth's resources and get product at the other end: just like a snake eating it's own tail.