Louis, thanks for this. What kind of group is spiked-online?
(I get their stuff automatically. Should I put them on my auto-trash list? I
remember some good stuff in the past...)
Ian, I don't think it helps to
launch blanket condemnations of "economists." Just as LP notes that
there are progressive and Marxian environmentalists, there are also "good"
economists. (BTW, I've noticed that it's not just economists who use
straw-person attacks. It's quite a common disease.)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
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> Proyect
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> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] a critique of
Enviro-Econ
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>
> http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA750.htm
> > Environmentalist assumptions that, at the very least,
should be the
> > subject of debate are unquestioningly
accepted.
> Environmentalism has
> > become central to the
mainstream outlook, rather than the
> particular
> > property of
green parties or organisations.
>
> One of the things that most
annoys me about this grotesque cult of
> ex-Trotskyists now making their
living as PR men for oil
> companies, real
> estate developers, etc.
is their refusal--then and now--to
> take up the
> ideas of
ecosocialists like James O'Connor or John Bellamy
> Foster.
