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Tony Tracy wrote
In an earlier email, Ralph Johansen wrote:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209
The link that he posted from longtime Canadian conspiracist website
“Global Research” was to an article written by longtime Larouchite F.
William Engdahl [they had reprinted the article from a website called
/“New Eastern Outlook.” <https://journal-neo.org/>, /which from a
cursory look seems unexceptionable rj]./
/
Engdahl is has been part of Lyndon Larouche’s conspiracist cult for many
years, and has been frequently published by Larouchite publications such
as the “Executive Intelligence Review”.
Engdahl is also a global warming denialist
<http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming_denialism>; according to
Engdahl, global warming, like peak oil, is merely a “scare” and a
“thinly veiled attempt to misuse climate to argue for a new Malthusian
reduction of living standards for the majority of the world while a tiny
elite gains more power.”
Neither Engdahl, nor the publisher of this article (“Global Research”)
are credible sources on either climate change, economics, or anything else.
I’m appalled to see this sort of conspiracist still being sent to the
Marxism email list.
Cheers,
Tony
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/All of which may be perfectly true but is ad hominem attack and doesn't
deal with the substance of what I sent. While it often makes sense to
track the messengers to their lairs on the right and therefore shorten
time and avoid having to deal with what they say, even conspiracists
manage to be right on some things some of the time, and in those
respects should not be dismissed or ignored. And what of the other
article I sent https://tinyurl.com/y6c7ljem?
Greta Thunberg I'm sure has brought a fresh, young element into the
discussion of global collapse. Same with AOC. They're presence is sorely
needed. That said, I just don't think It's that simple. There are highly
paid policy wonks and apologists for capital in think tanks and right
wing funded foundations, those with control of the media, the IMF, World
Bank, EU and transnational capitalist agencies all over the capitalist
world, some of whom no longer think denial is going to get it - the
evidence is too palpable - and they are instead pondering how they can
divert attention and attack from those with the real power, the real
culprits, corporate perpetrators of climate destruction, Syngenta,
Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, Dupont, the oil and gas and transport. banking,
industrial and commercial and distributional factions who know that it's
either growth or death for capitalism, to government epigones in the
process who are hopelessly bought and kept in place by their corporate
sponsors. Including Democrats, those who would reform capitalism to save
us all as well like the current pack of presidential candidates.
Anything but look at the real problem which is the cancerous, moribund
method of getting out of product which is called capitalism and the
screaming imperative to kick it all over. So why not if they can swing
it, foist these youthful enthusiasts on us to lead us in exactly the
wrong direction, if they'll just hold still long enough to maybe
haplessly serve as poster children for policy by means of which the
vitally involved parties can continue to plunder in the name of saving
the planet and the system - hopeless, obfuscating carbon counting and
"footprint" mitigation and Green New Dealing, and profit-taking on
disaster one more time and all at the expense of poor working blokes
everywhere in the tax and consumer base while the real criminals against
planet and humanity run with the loot to the Caymans and the Bahamas and
to underground safe houses. And successfully tout simultaneous
planet-saving and unlimited growth and capital expansion. Again, as
Frederic Jameson has it, it's more convenient to maybe even think of the
end of the world than it is to think of the end of capitalism. And be
careful what you wish for.
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