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by Robert McLean
Arundhati Roy sees
capitalism as the root cause of a crisis that has only catastrophic results for
humanity.
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| Arundhati Roy and her book, "Capitalism: A Ghost Story". |
The Indian author and political activist, best known for the
1998 Man Booker Prize for fiction-winning novel “The God of Small Things” and
for her involvement in human rights and environmental causes, aims directly at
this ideology in her book “Capitalism: A Ghost Story”.
In her 2014 book, Roy said: “Capitalism is destroying the
planet. The two old tricks out of past crises – war and shopping – simply will
not work”.
She lambasts the intricacies of capitalism in India in that
how it has favoured so few and disenfranchised so many.
Lamenting India’s fascination with the U.S. economic policy
she writes: “As a result of the Free Market Economy, today 100 of India’s
richest people own assets worth one-fourth of the country’s GDP while more than
80 per cent of the people live on less
than 50 cents a day.”
Roy’s book is damning in every way about capitalism and
apparent disregard it has for people, its willingness to step on anyone who
dare retard its ambitions and the indifference is has for human and ecological damage
it leaves behind.
Capitalism, unleashed and allowed to slip the usual moral
restraints imposed by decency, is the fundamental cause of climate change
“Capitalism: A Ghost Story” is worth a read for anyone
interested in climate change and its causes.
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