I would argue that pushing the idea that the way to protect THE GLOBAL NORTH ( -- that is, us Yanks and Brits and Europeans and Japanese and even sub-imperialists) from long run pollution is to PAY THE APPROPRIATE price as a BRIBE to the global south to keep fossil fuels in the ground as a very worthwhile intellectual struggle in which to engage ...
I bet there could be fantastic benefit-cost analyses on how much money we in the global north would save if we didn't have to fight forever wars keeping out the climate refugees in 20 to 30 years --- and if we can actually keep the celsius increase below 4 degrees, the amount we'd save in coastal damage, storms, droughts, climate migrations WITHIN the global north would be virtually infinite. As we in the global north change our energy consumption, etc. there is only one way to get the global south to "play along:" --- and that's with an APPROPRIATE (not the joke that Patrick describes was offered by Norway, etc.) level of payment --- The same rationale that is used by the right wing to subsidize the capitalists (who they call the "job creators"!) applies to us bribing the global south to keep fossil fuels in the ground -- I think fighting that intellectual fight is VERY MUCH WORTH IT --- even if the chance of "success" appears to be virtually NIL --- On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 6:31 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/14/21 5:25 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > > Actually that's the whole point, Louis, of the demand that the North pay > peoples of the South *not to exploit fossil fuels, as downpayment on the > climate debt* owed. To remind, from this morning's post, > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7258): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7258 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81279389/21656 -=-=- 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/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
