En relación a [CrashList] The world becomes less wonderful,
el 24 Feb 01, a las 13:56, Mark Jones dijo:
>"How much more evidence do we need before
> governments take real action to tackle climate change?" says Russell Marsh of
> WWF, the conservation group. Negotiations to complete the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on
> cutting greenhouse gas emissions seem likely to remain stalled unless countries
> can agree to make a genuine commitment to reducing the use of fossil fuels. Yet
> the attitude of many politicians, especially in energy-hungry countries such as
> the US, is that the cost of taking action to curb global warming exceeds the
> electoral gains.
No amount of evidence will have "the governments" take real action, in fact,
something WWF, the reactionary group, will never acknowledge or even discover.
What menaces Nature and climatic equilibria is NOT amenable to legal
constriction. Its name is ominous, it is known as "tendency of the rate of
profit to fall". This kind of natural phenomenon (natural in the sense that,
though it is human-made, it operates in abstract, at our back so to say) is
built in with capitalism. Or we get rid of capitalism, dear friends, or we
shall be either scorched or fried. Hobson's choice?
While most scientists can easily see that no civilization (mode of production)
has bought an insurance against ecologic disaster (there are examples, the Maya
being one of the most important ones), they fail to see that the very mode of
production they work for is prone to the same fatal end, only that on a global
scale.
Rome, at least, had great historians of its decadence and fall. could it be
that our times will have no such historian, due to lack of people to write the
story down?
Soothing.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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