We have swapped references on FB and I have been reading about degrowth - to 
which I am sympathetic if not convinced - a lot of versions do lot like 
austerity politics. There has been a Marxist critique of Malthusian thinking 
since Marx so presenting my questioning of a view which presents environmental 
questions in physiocratic terms - without any reference to class or capitalism 
as some kind of "outsider" position on Marxmail is pretty odd. As a Marxist I'd 
expect basic stats like the fact that a small number of firms produces most of 
the carbon pollution to be central to any explanation rather than Fanning's 
that divides the consumption of the billionaire class into the world population 
as if we are all equally responsible. Questioning the lack of class politics is 
apparently now equivalent to the most unthinking ecomodernism. Why some kind of 
ecomodernism that was once pretty mainstream Marxism is now likened to 
reactionary Christianity or lifestylism is beyond me.

Never mind that tactic that if someone questions the idea of limits (which have 
a reactionary history repeated proved wrong) then they must be in favours of 
infinite population growth as if the best demographic evidence doesn't suggest 
the population with stabilise around 10 billion and feeding them will be the 
challenge - one that we used to think would involve eliminating the billionaire 
class and sharing the wealth rather than telling the world's working classes 
they need to reduce their numbers or consume less.


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