Chris Burford
> This is so very grim, it is inevitable that the terms of debate will shift
> more an more to social control of the environment and the global economy.
>
> Every unexpected weather problem will now be interpreted in terms of this.
>
> Indeed the more humans try to control the environment, the more the efforts
> may be just as likely to add to the problems and require even more
> intervention to stabilise an exponentially destabilising system.
>
> The political battle will be about whether the measures of social control
> are in the interests of finance capital, or of the people of the world.
>
It is clear that capitalism cannot survive. Climate change + energy deficits
have become the 'determining last instance' of all historical processes in our
epoch; all our politics ought therefore to be based squarely on this fact.
Unfortunately all but the most catastrophic scenarios fail to say just how bad
life will be for most people, most of the time, in this century. The
progressive collapse of the fundamental systems: energy, water, food supply,
and the onslaught of terrifying epidemic disease, ensure that most states will
collapse and that civil society everywhere will be stressed and will often
fail.
The Left of every hue is evidently afraid of even addressing the issue, the
enormity of which seems to paralyse people and induce a fatalism and even a
kind of nonchalance which is also part of the problem.
It is certain that capitalism will collapse, that hundreds of millions and
undoubtedly, billions, will die. No-one who fails to make these facts the
basis and guiding compass of their politics, has any right even to claim that
they have a politics.
Mark
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