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“People and companies are fined or imprisoned for breaking rules and regulations related to the environment.”

Can you name some instances?

“Most of the problems are happening in countries without adequate institutions to set and enforce laws.”

You mean countries like UK/US/Australia. Their inadequate institutions permit their national mining/fishing corporations to pillage their own and, even-more inadequate, international zones of depredation, indifferent to local punitive fines and imprisonment.

The might of human approbation doesn’t cut it against the might of inhuman capital.

You see, it’s capitalist law — by capitalists for capitalists — that is notionally “violated”. Accumulation of capital thrives in environments it finds congenial or else skedaddles to greener pastures, where it may rape without encumbrance, leaving behind human approbation as so much detritus in its wake.

The working class is ineffectual in capitalist affairs, even it bleats its approbation loud and ever so plaintively to unrepentant capital.

“This was my original point, that in the mind of a lot of people Socialism is associated with sharing out the misery and imposing controls on what people want or need.”

Is that your mindset too?

If not, why bring up a fact recognised by all — thanks to a century of labourist and communists exemplars?

A socialist sees the task at hand to disabuse the mob, instead of triumphantly turning its ignorance into a blugeon against socialism.