Hi Mark, I totally disagree with your underlying thesis here: that unless we get rid of capitalism, there can be no real action on climate change (correct me if I'm wrong here).
Much can be done "under capitalism". Our air is actually much cleaner now thanks to the Clean Air Act(s). The same is true with numerous environmental regulations won under "bourgeois democracy". It is what one fights for. Even if we went to steady-state economic growth, we have to replace fossil fuel in order to mitigate climate change. You have something, IMHO, of a defeatist position. I say that because simply opposing any development (nothing about what this might actually look like) doesn't inform us of what we should be doing...it is "nothing can be done short of workers revolution"...so stop gripping about climate change? I don't know. There are implications to this position, "de-development communism" regarding what to do now. Many immediate demands can be won (thus the concept of "immediate") as part of the development of independent working class political action. If we replaced all fossil fuel generation and made a real conversion of transportation vehicles to low carbon that would be a great advance regardless of the mode of production we live under. What do you tell the billion or more folks with no access to electricity? Or another half a billion with intermittent energy access? At every level, people want jobs, and the "stuff" those jobs can buy. All that just to survive. You have no...transitional perspective at all. How do you suppose folks with be won over to your philosophy on this? David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39675): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39675 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116655555/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
