Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> I thought that this was important.  I wonder why it has not elicited any

That there is and has been strong public support for  climate control
and other ecological issues is, I'm afraid, also evidence that these
issues cannot, themselves, be the basis of any mass movement. That
support is, as Gar says, weak tea. It is evidence that, if a strong mass
movement of the left should arise around other issues (a Movement of
Movement), such a left _would_ incorporate ecological demands, and those
wouldin turn strengthen such a left.

But the abstract future of the earth as a habitable planet simply is not
the sort of thing mass mvements are built of.

It is nearly impossible to formulate the demands abut which such
amovement could organize itself. Remember, mass movements need a
negative at their center.

Carrol
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