Re: Mark Jones Was Right

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In a message dated 4/11/2004 2:57:47 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, Jim, although if as some are suggesting we shift from oil to coal, the problem will get worse, not better. Furthermore, it does nothing to solve the population pressure on other resources, in particular water. Paul   Why is there no shortage of water in Las Vegas - sitting in the desert? How our current infrastructure has been configured is a property relations. Earth is 3/4 water. What pressure on water is being talked about except a configuration of society that is the meaning of bourgeois property and production.   Is it not better in today's world to demand that Coca Cola and Pepsi Co. use their vast technology to clean the water ways and reconfigure the water system - infrastructure.   The so-called water shortage in the Southwest is no shortage but a problem that arose on the basis of how bourgeois property reconfigured agricultural production in our country.   Bourgeois production did not "create" the problems we face but reconfigured the appearance form of the problems we face on the basis of the production of everything on the basis of profits.   I do not understand "the water problem." I do most certainly understand water distribution under a system of buying and selling labor as the basis of being able to have water as a societal right.  We posses the technology right now today for anyone anywhere to have a clean glass of water.   This is fairly obvious and entering the consciousness of the American people. Our current problem in its salient feature is the property relations not to many people on earth.   Bourgeois property creates needs to maintain itself and as the basis of its self reproduction. It is time for us to examine the concept of needs and our actual consumption pattern. This most certainly involves economics.   Melvin P.