On Jun 26, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
On 6/25/07, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The ecology movement, particularly as it focuses on global warming,
proceeds on the assumption that many nations, constituting sharply
conflicting interests, and many capitalist groups, constituting
sharply
conflicting interests, can, under present global political and
economic
conditions, come to shared policies applied globally to control
global
warming. This is not going to happen.
<snip of some of Devine>
and not deceive themselves with the belief
that popular movements can force capitalist regimes to deal with
problems which are inherently unmangageable under capitalism.
<Devine again> "inherently"? I'm sure that the US cappos can
afford to cut hydocarbon
emissions -- by making workers pay. and/or by moving in the direction
of a more centrally-planned capitalism.
Global warming IS inherently unmanageable for capitalism, imho,
because techology cannot deal with it. Only ending growth will
succeed in dealing with global warming and ending growth ... .
Gene Coyle
