On 3/30/13 6:52 PM, William Quimby wrote: > Just curious - are you totally denying that there may be long-range > negative effects from climate change? Denying that there > is such a thing as climate change? This just a "neurosis" based on no > scientific facts?
For me the interesting question is more overarching. How do people react to predictions of extinction? When I was young, the threat of nuclear annihilation was quite real. You had people like Leo Szilard urging the creation of a Cobalt bomb that could destroy all life on earth. As a reaction to that threat, a student peace movement and SANE got started. Many of the shock troops of the new left came out of the anti-nuclear movement of the 1950s, people who were moved to political action out of a sense that crazy people were capable of destroying the planet. I think that climate change is capable of serving as a seedbed for elements of a new revolutionary movement as long as there are socialists who get involved with it. People like Bill McKibben are clueless. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
