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One of the most durable eco-strategic fights ever, usefully
distinguishing yuppie greens from climate justice proponents
(because no, we're not all on the same team), concerns carbon
trading, a.k.a. the 'privatisation of the air'. In recent issues of Capitalism Nature Socialism and Review of Radical Political Economics, Gar and I have debated Robin Hahnel about his nearly unique attempt to sell carbon trading to the left. Let me know if you'd like to get all this offlist. But I think the main audience we still need to address is the potentially-engaged progressive activists who just need to find a few new routes into this area of work, given it is both the most important problem of our era and because the reform-capitalist strategy is simply not working. One way we've tried to move this into that audience is a film, http://www.storyofcapandtrade.org (with more than a million views) - and it would be wonderful if PEN-Lers give us feedback, especially if such great momentum is building in the circuits Naomi Klein also feels it useful to address, e.g. ordinary 350.org members. Her two recent pieces - the Salon interview and a talk to Canadian trade unionists - are not easily dismissed as pre-book hype, as does Romm. Instead this is a time to offer big-picture challenges. Climate is one of the most appropriate ways to get into the larger questions of the mode of production. The most recent Pews global public opinion survey has climate the world's #1 worry (around 50% of all respondents) followed closely by global financial melt. Join us! Patrick |
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