Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
I could not answer any better than Ken did. I was also thinking of farmers in Latin America being booted off their lands and then farming on the hills. Am I blaming the peasants? Of course not. I was only making the point that increasing their ability to survive would decrease the pressure

Re: Re: Re: Re: energy crises

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Nordhaus knows more math than the freshman. Eugene Coyle wrote: What's the difference between Nordhaus' theory and Freshman NC econ -- "the market will solve the problem"? Gene Coyle Michael Perelman wrote: Nordhaus assumed that there would always be an available "backstop"

Re: GM crops and reduced pesticide use

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Ken, could it be that in the short run that the herbicide knows out more of the habitat that harbored pests. Wouldn't we have to wait to see what sort of pests adapt to the environment and then make the determination about the pesticide use? Ken Hanly wrote: Some opponents of GM seeds claim that

Growth (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Be very careful. The population of the rich grows in two ways: (i) the rich have lots of children, and (ii) the poor become rich... do you know that african american women are sterilized at a significantly higher rate than white women? (according to our sociologist friend,Andy Austin, 3-4

Re: Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
I began by mentioning the need to control the rich. Brad suggested, if I understood him correctly, that I might mean that I would like to see the poor remain poor to minimize the impact of the rich. Then I responded about the environmental problems associated with extreme poverty. I absolutely

Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Louis Proyect wrote: Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", Lou, I agree with the rest of your

Re: Re: Aimless blather on dialectics, method,history and revolution

2000-06-28 Thread Rob Schaap
How do you mean self-institutionalising? Just that most Marxists seem to agree that the development of a class for itself would have to occur outside extant institutions. The theory being that those extant institutions (including unions) are complicit in the perpetuation of capitalist

Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Ken Hanly wrote: Although I appreciate Jim Devine's argument for higher gas prices there is a definite income bias involved. The relatively well off can continue to drive their SUV's etc. while the lower middle classes will be priced right out of the automobile market. This saves oil

Re: Re: Reply to Carrol Cox

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
- Original Message - From: "Carrol Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:09 AM Subject: [PEN-L:20795] Re: Reply to Carrol Cox Yes I agree the house is on fire. So what do we do? stop discussing rock music, waterfalls and brand imagery. Mark

Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Unfortunately Rod does not understand what Yoshie is saying. It is simply wrong to say "the problem is with the social system not with the technical feasibility." The problem is precisely with technical feasibility and it is mystification to argue anything else. If you think another social system

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: energy crises

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Brad deLong wrote: Ummm Brad, you may end being known as the man who put the 'um' in 'dumb'. Do you suppose Simon's bet with Ehrlich is safe ground for you to stand on? You too, simply have no idea what the issue is. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList

Re: Re: RE: RE: RE: Re: energy crises

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Max Sawicky wrote: I just don't believe it. When fossil fuels become sufficiently expensive, massive efforts will go into developing alternatives. There will be a lot of money to be made, coordination problems aside. To me that's more likely than green consciousness leading to

Re: Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
London (1830) Economic pundit X: If the economy continues to grow at its present rate, in fifty years we will all be buried in ten feet of horse shit. Rod -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archive http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html Batoche Books

Re: Re: Re: Aimless blather on dialectics, method,history and revolution

2000-06-28 Thread Joanna Sheldon
Hi Rob, Just that most Marxists seem to agree that the development of a class for itself would have to occur outside extant institutions. The theory being that those extant institutions (including unions) are complicit in the perpetuation of capitalist hegemony, and that any policy to advance

Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Mine: Lou, I agree with the rest of your post. I should, however, open a small paranthesis that I don't frankly think that comrade Mark has Marx's critique of Malthus in his mind when he defends Bartlett, since Bartlett, is not a Marxist. The problem is that most, if not all, of the empirical

Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
M A Jones wrote: Unfortunately Rod does not understand what Yoshie is saying. It is simply wrong to say "the problem is with the social system not with the technical feasibility." The problem is precisely with technical feasibility and it is mystification to argue anything else. Then do

Re: Re: Re: Re: Dogmatism, and homosexuality

2000-06-28 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, Chris Burfurd made an interesting reply. During the week I work. When a good reply comes along I can't get to it as fast as I would like. However, I will respond in a few days or less. If I had my druthers, I think Chris is someone I think who could make something

The Political Issue(s), was Re: We used 10 times...

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Rod Hay wrote: London (1830) Economic pundit X: If the economy continues to grow at its present rate, in fifty years we will all be buried in ten feet of horse shit. Look, I've made pretty clear that I think *politically* Lou and Mark are following a course of mere despair and political

Crappy message blocked

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
Should we call the help desk in London ? CB Please be aware that the Company's electronic mail (email) system has a built-in content checking system designed to prevent inappropriate email traffic between Robert Fleming and the public mail network. An email issued with the

Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
Rod had said: There is no shortage of energy! )) CB: Right now. But surely not all energies are infinite. How long will there be no shortage ? Don't we have responsibility to think long term for our species ? If the shortage will only arise in 100 or 200 years should we be

Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
At 09:41 PM 06/27/2000 -0500, you wrote: Although I appreciate Jim Devine's argument for higher gas prices there is a definite income bias involved. The relatively well off can continue to drive their SUV's etc. while the lower middle classes will be priced right out of the automobile

Re: Dematerialization, decarbonation, post-capitalism and the entropy liberation front

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
... convert us from tree huggers to tree planters; since a lot of the old trees take decades or centuries to grow (and because the forestry industry favors quick-growing trees), there's a need to hug the existing trees _and_ plant new ones. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 10:46AM Instead, the government should deal with the problem by increasing the amount and quality of public mass transit drastically, including getting many more of these natural-gas-driven wheelchair-friendly busses. Much of the expense can be covered by the gas

Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: Instead, the government should deal with the problem by increasing the amount and quality of public mass transit drastically, including getting many more of these natural-gas-driven wheelchair-friendly busses. Much of the expense can be covered by the gas tax. In general, the idea is

krugman

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Yates
There is a good piece on Krugman by Edward Herman in the most recent issue of "Z Magazine." Herman thrashes Krugman's own trashing of left-liberal economists. Especially interesting was Krugman's reliance on social security "expert," Martin Feldstein. Feldstein's research, as I am sure most of

Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Bill Burgess
At 08:07 AM 28/06/00 -0400, Louis wrote: Can the capitalist system resolve these [ecological] problems? This is a theoretical question that has challenged a wide variety of thinkers. David Harvey's new book "Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference" argues that it can. Harvey does

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
From your database of 1, you produced a profound sample, no? Now, however, let's talk about fossil carbon and what it means and what it does, or else stop wasting our time. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList - Original Message - From: "Rod Hay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dogmatism, and homosexuality

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Doyle Saylor wrote: Greetings Economists, Doyle, I don't think you should speak of/to the disabled like this. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Carrol, you keep asking what to do, I'd suggest superglue, go to a power station in a state of elation, stick yourself to a chimney, then we'll see, if it's a nuke you stay till you're blue, if it's coal you stay till your ole, if you wanne be eco n' even more ego, tape yourself to a windmill,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Reply to Carrol Cox

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Carrol Cox wrote: you and Mark, so far as I can tell, have actually persuaded just one person -- Me! You haven't had the tiniest effect on anyone else as far as I can see. So what are you going to do with your one single solitary convert -- you are going to swear at him for saying, let's see

Re: Dematerialization, decarbonation, post-capitalism and the entropy liberation front

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
- Original Message - From: "Lisa Ian Murray" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:26 AM Subject: [PEN-L:20801] Dematerialization, decarbonation, post-capitalism and the entropy liberation front to make the larger point that energy markets are

Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
Charles. The shortage will arise in one million years by which time there will be no human species as we know it. I say let them fend for themselves. Rod Charles Brown wrote: Rod had said: There is no shortage of energy! )) CB: Right now. But surely not all energies are

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
At 04:36 PM 6/28/00 +0100, you wrote: Jim, you are such a disappointment to me. "wheelchair-friendly busses"? Gimme a break. There won't be these kinds of kindly options. hey, we've got them in Culver City, where I live. The engine is on top of the bus, so that the passenger compartment is

Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy inthe20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
How do you know it will take that long ? (By the way, how do you know there will be no human species in one million years ?) CB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 12:13PM Charles. The shortage will arise in one million years by which time there will be no human species as we know it. I say let them

My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 11:38AM Charles writes: Yes, and what about electric powered vehicles ? Do they depend on fosssil fuels ultimately ? Of course, electricity can be generated by solar power, wind power, tidal power, etc. But the discussion on pen-l concerning this issue strongly

Re: krugman

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
It was not proven false to Feldstein, who keeps writing about the same stuff. Michael Yates wrote: There is a good piece on Krugman by Edward Herman in the most recent issue of "Z Magazine." Herman thrashes Krugman's own trashing of left-liberal economists. Especially interesting was

Re: Re: Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Brad De Long
I began by mentioning the need to control the rich. Brad suggested, if I understood him correctly, that I might mean that I would like to see the poor remain poor to minimize the impact of the rich. No. I said that one has to be very careful deploying that kind of argument because it does run

Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Brad De Long
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 10:46AM Instead, the government should deal with the problem by increasing the amount and quality of public mass transit drastically, including getting many more of these natural-gas-driven wheelchair-friendly busses. Much of the expense can be covered by the gas

Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Mark, I have been watching your sarcasmic criticisms with enthusiasm for two days. You F many on the list left and right. What can I say? I really admire your sense of humor. Marxists are generally known to be cool people. You are truly sarcastic! sarcastically, Mine

Re: :We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Eugene Coyle
M A Jones wrote: Carrol, you keep asking what to do, I'd suggest superglue, go to a power station in a state of elation, stick yourself to a chimney, then we'll see, if it's a nuke you stay till you're blue, if it's coal you stay till your ole, if you wanne be eco n' even more ego, tape

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Ken Hanly
Well if you can't beat them, I guess the next best thing is to become a Marxist Jeremiah. By the way if socialists should get their skates on, as Mark Jones proclaims ex cathedra, won't they be skating on thin ice given global warming? Actually the results of global warming are imaginable.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Dogmatism, and homosexuality

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:20 AM 6/28/00 +0100, you wrote: Jim's 5 year old essay on Aspergers Syndrome is a very personal examination. The biggest qualification that could be made to it, I think, is the need for a social context. What many members of the intelligentsia struggle over internally are the

Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Instead, the government should deal with the problem by increasing the amount and quality of public mass transit drastically, including getting many more of these natural-gas-driven wheelchair-friendly busses. Much of the expense can be covered by the gas tax. In general, the idea is to move

Re: Re: :We used 10 times as much energy in the20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Brad De Long
During WW II in the war in the Pacific, one of the most horrendous battles was fought over the island of Tarawa. Death in great numbers came to both sides. Tarawa is now beneath the Pacific ocean, a casualty of global warming. Gene Coyle 30,000 people live on Tarawa. The expected high

Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Ken Hanly
If there really is an emergency and people are convinced of that I don't see why rationing would not work. While I agree that public transportation should be supported, as long as the rich don't use it they will use their influence and power to sabotage attempts to subsidize a system they do not

Re: My looniness (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
Oh Carrol get with the programme. You are to organize all the True Believers and take them off to Jonestown -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archive http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html Batoche Books http://Batoche.co-ltd.net/ 52 Eby Street South

Re: Reply to Carrol Cox

2000-06-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Louis Proyect wrote: In any case, until Marxism has debated out and resolved these questions, it will not be able to maximize its influence on the intelligentsia. I want to stress the importance, by the way, of who our target audience is. It is not the working-class at this point. It is a

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
Ken In addition, it might be useful to ban auto traffic in high density areas. It would be difficult, but worth a debate in our major cities. My local paper this morning predicts 60 to 70 extra deaths this summer (in a city of about half a million) due to air pollution. Properly handled this

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reply to Carrol Cox

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Doug wrote: What I'm not clear on is what exactly this socialist revolution would mean for industrial and agricultural practice, energy sources, the transformation of the built environment, living arrangements, etc. This is exactly the issue. The point is not to be original, the point is to

RE: Re: :We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Eugene Coyle wrote: MA Jones seems to be changing his position. On the one hand he says we are running out of oil and there is nothing anyone can do about it. So What's to organize? What does this mean? That you prefer to inhabit a world of illusion on condition that illusory organising

RE: Energy Crisis: Summing up

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Michael Perelman wrote: We do not have the infrastructure in place to produce enough solar or wind yet. We never will, either. There is no alternative to the petroleum economy and it is irresponsible fantasising to suggest that there is. Mark

Re: Re: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energyin the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 08:26AM M A Jones wrote: Unfortunately Rod does not understand what Yoshie is saying. It is simply wrong to say "the problem is with the social system not with the technical feasibility." The problem is precisely with technical feasibility and it is

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: I find your e-missives to be useless. Therefore, I've instructed the Eudora program to automatically transfer them to the trash bin. I recommend that others do so, too. Doug writes: Hmm, not very promising for "ORGANISING"! It's kind of hard to organize people around catastrophe.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Actually, the 'cadre' of the Seattle demonstrators were organized in response to what they see as a looming catastrophe. Mark, John Foster and I are trying to develop a theoretical alternative to the kind of deep ecology beliefs that moved them into action. It boils down to Marxism versus

Re: Re: Re: Re: Reply to Carrol Cox

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 02:06PM Carrol Cox wrote: You have a really fine political mind -- but you are almost deliberately trashing it. Anyone who takes you and Mark really seriously can only conclude that further political theorizing or organizing is pointless. The world is over. Forget

RE: Re: Re:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Carrol, There is no split between me and Jose Perez. As for astrology guides as alternatives to bus timetables, that may not be irrational. In parts of the UK, you could get arrested for loitering if you stood around at a bus stop waiting for a bus, after Mrs Thatcher privatised public

Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply to Carrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Carrol Cox wrote: You have a really fine political mind -- but you are almost deliberately trashing it. Anyone who takes you and Mark really seriously can only conclude that further political theorizing or organizing is pointless. The world is over. Forget it. Let's go to the movies. That's not

Review Article: World Resources Institute. (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
A mainstream source on environmental regulation.. Mine Volume 2, Review 1, 1996 http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X World Resources Institute. WORLD RESOURCES 1994-95: A GUIDE TO THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. New York: Oxford University

Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:44 PM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 03:10PM In addition to the content, we should be conscious of the style used in preaching. __ CB: But if you were convinced of all the content of what Mark is saying, do you mean you would not support him in this

My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 03:10PM In addition to the content, we should be conscious of the style used in preaching. __ CB: But if you were convinced of all the content of what Mark is saying, do you mean you would not support him in this discussion because he has a had a poor

My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 02:57PM Jim Devine wrote: I find your e-missives to be useless. Therefore, I've instructed the Eudora program to automatically transfer them to the trash bin. I recommend that others do so, too. Hmm, not very promising for "ORGANISING"! It's kind of hard to

World-system Studies of the Environment (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X World-system Studies of the Environment by

Socialism Ecology in Japan

2000-06-28 Thread Charles Brown
This is like the history of the Soviet Union, deja vu. CB Workers of the West, it's our turn. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/28/00 03:18PM Let's suppose an unlikely event: the Japanese working class rise up make a socialist revolution (of some kind). What would it mean to energy sources,

ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
From the World Bank's Development News, June 21, 2000 ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES Increasing trade liberalization and the effects of globalization have resulted in job losses and less secure work arrangements, the International Labor Organization said in a study

Re: Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply toCarrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Let's suppose an unlikely event: the Japanese working class rise up make a socialist revolution (of some kind). The rest of the imperial world, condemning the expropriation of Japanese other expropriators, swiftly puts an embargo on Japan to

energy

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
Charles It is not a matter of faith. It is a simple calculation. Amount of energy available minus amount used by humans in the course of their history. The result if a very large positive number. We are not going to run out of energy. Alternatives to internal combustion engines are technological

RE: Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply to Carrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: the Japanese working class rise up make a socialist revolution (of some kind). ... The US... The Japs would bomb NY with MIRV'ed Citizen watches and other precision objects until the Yanks gave up, surely, which is more or less what's happening anyway. The question

RE: Re: Dematerialization...

2000-06-28 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
to make the larger point that energy markets are already planned--just undemocratically. Care to expand? (seriously) Mark D H 'last time I hugged a tree it came' Lawrence-Jones = This guy did his Ph.D. on oil oligopolies in 1973...

Re: Re: Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Replyto Carrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Dennis R Redmond wrote: An embargo which is lifted approximately one millisecond after Japan threatens to call in the 150 billion euros of the US current account deficit it's been funding for well over a decade, thus pulling the plug on the Wall Street Bubble. How do you propose Japan would

Re: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
and the light became so bright and so blindin' in this layer of paradise that the mind of man was bewildered. (Canto 38) Rod Hay wrote: Ken In addition, it might be useful to ban auto

RE: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Max Sawicky
Charles. The shortage will arise in one million years by which time there will be no human species as we know it. I say let them fend for themselves. Rod Quite right. We will have evolved into heads w/o bodies, all subsisting on entirely mechanized production of goods and services, and all

Re: Re: Aimless blather on dialectics, method,history and revolution

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: At 12:17 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote: That leaves what I take to be the true dialectician, who is never wrong, because s/he's always content with the useless (by natural scientific standards of proof and prediction). a dialectician might never be wrong in terms of

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . Good luck organizing, Mark. Doug Don't sell him short. I think Mark has united PEN-L. mbs

[Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
I have found myself in agreement with Lou's recent post suggesting that the roots of ecological crisis and overpopulation pressures lie in the contradictions of capitalism, and that a socialist revolution is not only necessary but also desirable if we are to have a sustainable ecological system

RE: energy

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Rod Hay wrote: Charles It is not a matter of faith. It is a simple calculation. Amount of energy available minus amount used by humans in the course of their history. The result if a very large positive number. We are not going to run out of energy. Alternatives to internal combustion

re: energy

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
Let's stop this thread. All we get from Jones is invective. Not one thread of evidence, except some stupid post that shows what every high school math student knows -- exponential functions get large very quickly. Rod -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archive

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of Greenhousegases (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
ops, here is the article... Mine Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X Position in the World-System and National Emissions of

Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and NationalEmissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found myself in agreement with Lou's recent post suggesting that the roots of ecological crisis and overpopulation pressures lie in the contradictions of capitalism, and that a socialist revolution is not only necessary but also desirable if we are to have a

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Yeah, hang separately or hang together. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Sawicky Sent: 28 June 2000 22:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:20893] RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
this article is huge. my system does not allow me to send it. here is the web address. I did not attach it to my previous post... Mine Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN

Re: Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply to Carrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Socialism will collapse in a few years, or else, in an even more unlikely event of the Japanese victory, the battered socialist government will have to build everything back up from scratch amidst ruins, _who knows how_. And this if America doesn't bomb Red Japan back

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X Position in the World-System and National Emissions of Greenhouse Gases*

Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Karl Fred wrote: "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country." Compared to many other countries, the U.S. has a version of this, only we call it

Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Hmm, ok, maybe I can get an answer from you: what changes in industrial and agricultural practices, energy sources, the build environment, living arrangements, etc., will occur under socialism that will avoid the eco-catastrophe capitalism supposedly has in store for us. It's not just a

Re: Socialism Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply to Carrol Cox)

2000-06-28 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Think it won't happen? It will. It is. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList While I'm not against thinking about the future, I think it inadvisable for socialists to portray an emergency in the future tense. To paraphrase Walter Benjamin, "The tradition of the oppressed teaches

Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
I just read that NY City is the largest consumer of pesticides in the state. Now that you have that part of the agricultural system, may the rest won't be too hard. Doug Henwood wrote: It's weird to hear this coming from someone who lives works on Manhattan Island, but I'll leave that aside

China and GM food

2000-06-28 Thread Chris Burford
With scarcely any opposition, GM seed in rapidly making inroads into Chinese agriculture. China, the first country in the world to synthesise insulin, has its own scientists working on GM products. It seems likely the government is strongly backing a process that could make much of Chinese

On Mark to Rod, was Re: Re: re: energy

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
M A Jones wrote: Rod, I'd be happy to debate you but metaphysical assertions about 'infinite energy' which are easily + demonstrably untrue, are not a basis for debate. So yes, quit this silly non-debate. Mark, I agree with this in substance, but much of my caterwauling at you and Lou

Re: re: energy

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Rod, I don't think that it needs to be stopped, but certainly changed. Mark, Mr. Minimus here thinks that you need to tone down your rhetoric. I think that we all know where you stand. At this point, everything is unprovable -- like global warming. I don't mean that it is wrong. I largely

Putin loses key vote

2000-06-28 Thread Chris Burford
Putin has just overwhelmingly lost a vote in the Federation Council to exclude regional governors of their automatic seats and therefore their automatic immunity from prosecution. This is Putin's first major reversal after his inauguration in the czarist throne room. Russian politics looks

Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and NationalEmissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Doug, Obviously none of the desirable changes you and I and Mine hope for will happen. But capitalism will collapse anyway. Prove me wrong. Address the issues. And stop whingeing about how awful it will be; we know that. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList - Original Message

Future Mongering, was Re: Position in the World-System and NationalEmissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found myself in agreement with Lou's recent post suggesting that the roots of ecological crisis and overpopulation pressures lie in the contradictions of capitalism, and that a socialist revolution is not only necessary but also

Re: re: energy

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Rod, I'd be happy to debate you but metaphysical assertions about 'infinite energy' which are easily + demonstrably untrue, are not a basis for debate. So yes, quit this silly non-debate. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList - Original Message - From: "Rod Hay" [EMAIL

Re: Presto Change-o

2000-06-28 Thread Timework Web
Doug Henwood asked: Hmm, ok, maybe I can get an answer from you: what changes in industrial and agricultural practices, energy sources, the build environment, living arrangements, etc., will occur under socialism that will avoid the eco-catastrophe capitalism supposedly has in store for us.

ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
_World Bank Development_ news summarizes ILO report! Mine -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: world-system network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES (fwd) This

Re: Racism and Ecology.

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Carrol: brains weighed less than men's brains. An ecological theorist might believe in astronomy or esp and still perform trustworthy work in ecology. I don't know. That astronomy is pretty fishy stuff. The astronomy department at Columbia University is funded--as I understand it--by Shirley

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dogmatism, and homosexuality

2000-06-28 Thread Doyle Saylor
Well Hello, Mark Jones gets the point across to me this way, Greetings Economists, Doyle, I don't think you should speak of/to the disabled like this. Mark Jones Doyle You know what, I rather like you. You kind of grow on a person. By the way you wicked provoker, the last two weeks of my

Racism and Ecology.

2000-06-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Mark Jones wrote: I think you are missing the point rather. Let me put it this way: did Newton's theories about alchemy disqualify him as a scientist who discovered the laws of gravity? Not an appropriate comparison. Consider rather the way in which Broca the founder of neurology wasted

Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System andNational Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
what are you trying to prove with your insults Doug? are you implying the impossibility of a socialist agenda? who is fantasizing here? nobody is suggesting a _blue print_ for the future, as far as I can tell. Marx did not suggest either. Politics is a day to day struggle and what we can do is

Re: China and GM food

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Whatever ecological reservations progressive people may have about this, it is entirely understandable that a country like China needs to make a major push to gain relative advantage in the world. This would release vast amounts of labour power and purchasing power for economic transformation

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