In a capitalist society, climate change is considered as secondary in importance to profitability as long as abundant labor power are healthy enough to be hired as waged slaves , markets function well, crises come and go and no greater calamity is close at hand. Capital will be aware of its need to stop burning fossil fuels when the above conditions become too difficult to maintain. By that time, the planet and its inhabitants will be too late to survive.
Compulsory nationalization, on behalf of the society, of fossil mines, fuels and the carbon-based power plants and vehicle manufacturing has to be done in order to save the earth from total ruin. Financial incentives will not work. Advices and preaching do not go very far toward solving the survival problems. Under national ownership of means of production, economic growth will continue and survival is no longer a problem. Economic inequality will be replaced with full development of all individuals. Mark _____________________ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:53:38 -0700 From: Marv Gandall <[email protected]> Subject: [Pen-l] The Leap Manifesto To: Pen-L Economics <[email protected]>, LBO <[email protected]>, "Greg Albo [email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >The Leap Manifesto has been getting a lot of play, not only in Canada, but internationally. It?s most prominent signatory is Naomi Klein, and it?s been endorsed by a wide range of environmental and indigenous organizations, trade unions, and church groups. >The environmental movement has been broadly divided between those between those who think economic growth must be significantly slowed or halted to save the planet and those who see no contradiction between rapid economic development and preventing catastrophic climate change. There was a heated debate in October 2012 between Alex Gourevitch and Max Ajl in Jacobin magazine along these lines, for example. >As if often the case on the left, the differences may be more exaggerated than real. For those interested, my question is: >How would you amend the Leap Manifesto, if at all, to bring it into line with your views on economic growth and climate change? https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/#manifesto-content ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
