Chomsky may be not be an anarchist, he certainly can still play the role of the useful alarmist.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 04:26 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: > > > > The Doomsday Clock was set last January before the scale of the pandemic > was understood. Humanity will sooner or later recover from the pandemic, > at terrible cost. It is needless cost. We see that clearly from the > experience of countries that took decisive action when China provided the > world with the relevant information about the virus on January 10. Primary > among them were East-Southeast Asia and Oceania, with others trailing > along, and bringing up the rear a few utter disasters, notably the US, > followed by Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Modi’s India. > > > > Despite the malfeasance or indifference of some political leaders, there > will ultimately be some kind of recovery from the pandemic. We will not, > however, recover from the melting of the polar icecaps, or the exploding > rate of arctic fires that are releasing enormous amounts of greenhouses > gasses into the atmosphere, or other steps on our march to catastrophe. > > > > When the most prominent climate scientists warn us to *“Panic Now,* ” they > are not being alarmist. There is no time to waste. Few are doing enough, > and even worse, the world is cursed by leaders who are not only refusing > to take sufficient action but are deliberately accelerating the race to > disaster. The malignancy in the White House is far in the lead in this > monstrous criminality. > > > > It is not only governments. The same is true of fossil fuel industries, > the big banks that finance them, and other industries that profit from > actions that put the “survival of humanity” at serious risk, in the words > of a leaked internal memo of America’s largest bank. > > > > Humanity will not long survive this institutional malignancy. The means to > manage the crisis are available. But not for long. One primary task of the > Progressive International is to ensure that we all *panic now* – and act > accordingly. > > > > The crises we face in this unique moment of human history are of course > international. Environmental catastrophe, nuclear war, and the pandemic > have no borders. And in a less transparent way, the same is true of the > third of the demons that stalk the earth and drive the second hand of the > Doomsday clock towards midnight: the deterioration of democracy. The > international character of this plague becomes evident when we examine its > origins. > > > > Circumstances vary, but there are some common roots. Much of the > malignancy traces back to the neoliberal assault on the world’s population > launched in force 40 years ago. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1855): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1855 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77036158/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
