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It was a typo. It should have been obvious from the context that I meant UNprofitable. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Shane Mage via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Andrew Pollack wrote: > > Ted Glick makes an argument very similar to Shane's here: >> http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/17/naomi-klein-this-changes-every-thing/ >> >> It's certainly true, as Shane and Ted say, that the odds on making a >> socialist revolution in time to save the planet and its species are >> frighteningly small. >> >> But that doesn't mean pushing only those demands which supposedly make >> continuing pollution profitable... >> > > How about reading what I wrote? The whole point is to make continuing > pollution UNprofitable. > > > > > On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: >> Klein prettifies the carbon tax, and does not recognize it as >> a market measure, no better than the rest of them; >> >> This is the purest ultraleft idiocy. As I have pointed out--and as Green >> absurdly ignores--the capitalism system is not about to be overthrown by a >> proletarian revolution, not in less time than we have before the human >> environment is irrevocably destroyed. Our struggle therefore absolutely >> must center on demands for effective measures operative within the logic of >> the capitalist system. Effective carbon taxation is not merely >> "better"--it is the ONLY way to make the intensification of pollution so >> UNPROFITABLE that the capitalist market totally abandons it and is forced, >> by its own "logic," to recognize and act on the real, and ever-increasing, >> profitability of investment in the whole range of maturing >> carbon-eliminating energy technologies. >> >> Shane Mage >> >> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it >> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, >> kindling in measures and going out in measures. >> >> Herakleitos of Ephesos >> >> > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
