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On 9/25/17 12:54 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:
Ian Angus, author of the fine book, Facing the Anthropocene, rakes Jacobin's
environment issue over the coals. Here he focuses on the truly preposterous
essay by Christian Parenti. Jacobin has disgraced itself with this issue. It
claims to be a magazine of the left. Nothing could be further from the truth.
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/09/25/memo-to-jacobin-ecomodernism-is-not-ecosocialism/
You can get an idea of how bollixed up this Jacobin issue is with the
Leon Trotsky quote that prefaces it:
Faith merely promises to move mountains; but technology, which takes
nothing βon faith,β is actually able to cut down mountains and move
them. Up to now this was done for industrial purposes (mines) or for
railways (tunnels); in the future this will be done on an immeasurably
larger scale, according to a general industrial and artistic plan. Man
will occupy himself with re-registering mountains and rivers, and will
earnestly and repeatedly make improvements in nature. In the end, he
will have rebuilt the earth, if not in his own image, at least according
to his own taste. We have not the slightest fear that this taste will be
bad.
β Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution
To put it bluntly, Trotsky had his head up his ass on such questions.
Like this:
The phenomena of radio-activity are leading us to the problem of
releasing intra-atomic energy. The atom contains within itself a mighty
hidden energy, and the greatest task of physics consists in pumping out
this energy, pulling out the cork so that this hidden energy may burst
forth in a fountain. Then the possibility will be opened up of replacing
coal and oil by atomic energy, which will also become the basic motive
power.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1926/03/science.htm
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