Joseph Green writes: > The Durban framework is based on continuing the market fundamentalist > approach to the environment which is leading to utter catastrophe.
As I understand it, the main idea of the Durban framework is to get binding commitments of each nation in terms of their emissions. It wants binding buy-in from all nations and it knows that this can only be achived if it is very weak. But there are scientific criteria how much emission reductions are necessary. If the sum of individual commitments are not enough, the 2015 climate pact will try to establish some international mechanism how to create the additional commitments. If you want to criticize the Durban framework, you can say that it is wrong to try to get a globally binding agreement, because an agreement which requires consensus from every party can never be strong enough. But I would not call a binding international agreement "market fundamentalist." Market fundamentalists do not want international agreements at all since they intrude on the sovereignty of individual nations. The Durban framework is also not market fundamentalist because it leaves it up to each nation how to reach their commitments, they can use either cap and trade or carbon taxes. > serious activists should look into bringing the class > struggle into the environmental movement. If you define class struggle as struggle for control of means of production, the environmental movement is a kind of class struggle. It is the struggle for control over and benefit from the earth's natural resources, which are means of production. Therefore it is not necessary to bring class struggle into the environmental movement. All you have to do is recognize that it already is class struggle. You can use it as a lever to not only challenge the control of natural resources by the capitalists but also their control of the produced means of production. Hans G Ehrbar _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
