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I think so too. No one knows beyond doubt but we have to look at the
opposition to the concept and consequences of climate change and the
reasons for concealment, squarely.
"Clarity instead of hope," or shock and rethinking, will not likely be
the reaction of so many over so confusing an issue as withdrawal from
the clearly pusillanimous Paris Agreement, with no sanctions among
perpetrators for non-compliance; about which the msm and officialdom and
capital generally, in the globe's major, most profitable markets, are so
silent and seemingly unconcerned and so many are as a result so poorly
informed.
It's again here in the US more likely to be, if any reaction at all
among people whose lives are so little affected, "Oh well, Trump's the
spokesperson in chief; he must know something we don't know, and there's
little response to his actions from anyone except from some of those who
call us 'the deplorables', and the Greenpeace crazies."
Policy setters and their rich cohorts in the US, where those bondholders
most affected reside and who are for the most part kept fully aware,
know that the likely effects of raising this issue in all its
cataclysmic dimensions will have a devastating effect on capital
accumulation; capital is entirely incapable of sustaining the hit that
full response entails for them - the ridiculous global value chains,
12,000-mile supply lines, corollary access to cheap, global immobile
labor and the contrived division of the working class supplanting its
collective strength, colossal waste and mis-use of planetary resources,
all the severe, irreversible, pervasive impacts that are entailed.
My liberal, so-called friends generally, too internally preoccupied,
who as John says haven't a clue about class and its consequences or the
inner workings of capital, are not really that much concerned either.
It isn't that all is necessarily lost, but that it sure's hell doesn't help.
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John Reimann wrote
"This article is entirely worthy of a liberal like its Greenpeace author.
Ken Ward writes: "If Trump withdraws from the Paris agreement, at least
we will have clarity instead of hope." Shades of the old Stalinist view
"after Hitler then us"! On this basis, Ward should support Trump's
deportations of undocumented immigrants and his stepped-up bombing
campaign in Syria. Why not? The worse it gets, the better it gets
according to Ward.
And what conclusion does Ward draw? "*the shock and rethinking it will
cause in some circles just might precipitate political and cultural
changes we need to stave off climate cataclysm.*"
Evidently this does not include his circle, since his conclusion is that
we must turn more to the courts and to individual actions of civil
disobedience. Like all liberals, Ward is completely blind to class
interests, class conflict and class struggle.
History shows that the overthrow of bourgeois democracy leads not to
disillusionment in that form of capitalist government, but just the
opposite - *increased* illusion in it. It will be the same for the Paris
Climate Accord. Not only that, but increased illusions in the liberals
and the Democratic Party. But what is history to liberals like Ken Ward?
John Reimann"
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