After a furtive appraising glance at the Hudson boddhisatva wrote:
> Boddhisatva never told anybody he lives in a high-rise anywhere
> since he doesn't and boddhisatva never said that he didn't believe in
> global warming. What he said was that he lived in Jersey City above the
> Palisades, while Lou Proyect's concern about global warming, he said
> jokingly, might be linked to the fact tha he lives on the upper west side
> of Manhattan island. Either way the situation is a cruel joke.
> It is particularly cruel because crisis Marxists somehow believe
> that global warming and environmental degradation will be sufficient to
> unite people around anti-capitalism and anti-development *before* the
> crisis occurs. My opinion is that I will be fishing for striped bass in
> the lobby of the Pierre hotel before that happens. Rather I believe that
> development and industrialization will not be abated under any
> circumstances, capitalism will not protect the *global* environmant under
> any circumstances, and therefore socialist must show that they know the
> way forward to faster, cleaner development. Otherwise, we are all sunk.
I'm not sure what can be done about this matter _in situ_, but I invite
all you riparian goners-to-be to start a post-capitalist collective
(I couldn't settle on a better non-sectarian qualifier) here in dear old
Milwaukee (~600' above sea level and downright air-conditioned in summer).
Unless I've become too much of a town-booster, Milwaukee is the _only_
American city with socialist government in its purple past, so Doug and
boddhi can become the nucleus of another one, and Louis can hack/splice
Marxist literature into the various LANs and corporate intranets
around the state, in fact become the minister of education.
We really do have a nifty little Weltstadt here, so don't wait till
New Yorkers are lined up to buy hip-waders at $200 a pop, OK?
valis
