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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4012): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4012 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78574247/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
