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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]./
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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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