Lets not start a flame war. On Saturday, March 30, 2013, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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