Eugene Coyle wrote: > > > > If the expected horror is real, and I believe it is, then the things > tossed out in the hope part of the talk are fatuous. Not that some > or most of them should not be advocated and implemented. But the > prospect of success with them alone is nil. > > What must be done is to, first, stop GROWTH in consumption. We need > to stop growth in consumption in the North. Yes, China is growing > wildly, but what is consumed in China is desired because we consume > it in the USA.
"We" (actually _they_) are not going to stop growth in consumption. "We" (actually _they_) are going to keep on growing because the famous flexibility in capitalism is of a very special kind: the flexibility to survive as a system the horrors it continually creates. Global warming is going to come. That is a given. The horrors it creates are going to come. The question no longer revolves around preventing global warming. That is a utopian fantasy. The question is how we can best survive through several centuries of that horror. What sort of social organization will provide the best chance for such survival. What sort of political activity now will most contribute to the emergence of that kind of social organization. Carrol
