> On Mar 18, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Mark Wain <w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Compulsory nationalization, on behalf of the society, of fossil mines, fuels > and the carbon-based power plants and vehicle manufacturing has to be done > in order to save the earth from total ruin. Financial incentives will not > work. Advices and preaching do not go very far toward solving the survival > problems. Under national ownership of means of production, economic growth > will continue and survival is no longer a problem.
Why nationalize the fossil fuels industry anyway? It should just be shut down. The framers of the manifesto evidently believe that would be the effect of the proposed measures to render the industry uncompetitive and to embark on massive program of state and private investment in the green sector, to be financed by “…an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Financial transaction taxes. Increased resource royalties. Higher income taxes on corporations and wealthy people. A progressive carbon tax. Cuts to military spending”. These are all demands which have been widely circulated and were seen as the most likely to bring together a broad coalition of disparate groups and individuals. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
