On 22/03/11 13:30, Patrick Bond wrote: > For one, he never mentions the society's and planet's need to cut back > dramatically on all the ridiculous waste associated with (mainly > Northern/Western) capitalist extraction, production, distribution, > consumption, disposal, financing... > > On 2011/03/22 06:14 AM, Bill Lear wrote: >> Does Monbiot make any obvious errors in his article? What is he >> overlooking?
It isn't even his "argument" - it has been circulated from day one by techno-enthusiasts (who defend any technology at any cost) and right-wing apologetics and business reps: "Look, this was an old facility and nearly survived armageddon". (NB: It is somehat worthy of note that one of the politicians who has reacted strongly to the Japanese nuclear incident is Angela Merkel, who has a PhD in Physics and has worked as chemist). One of the things that Monbidiot is missing is that there is no perfect world - i.e. no nuclear power stations (or any other human made industrial facility) will ever be super safe, state-of-the-art, honest craftmanship. "We're in it for the money, dear". He also seeks to "expand the total supply", which is in great part required to fuel electronic gadgets (Playstation 1 < 80w / PS III = 380w, for instance) and corporate, unnecessary cloud "services", such as Facecrack and Google, altogether emitting far more carbon than for instance the aviation industry. Do "we" "need" all that? Incidentally, in a (monbiotan) perfect world, there would be a world government of the kind recently described on this list as a green-technocracy with the man himself as a spin doctor, naturally. -jmp -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
