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As the smoke cleared, Lawrence de Bivort <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Virtually ALL cost-accounting ignores secondary and tertiary effects of > an operation, even though some of these might easily outweigh the cost > elements of the operation itself. > > See, for a fuller treatment of this theme, ECOCIDE, on Russia's deadly > failure to include environmental and toxic impacts of its industrial > and agricultural activities. Ya, stalinism was thoroughly awful. Capitalism hardly better. And now we're all gonna die from Agribusiness swine flu. > In the 70s, the US EPA sought to enlarge the scope of accounting by the > introduction of "Technology Assessment". Analytically, the task is > non-trivial, and for that and for political reasons our society, as all > other societies in the world with which I am familiar, has yet to > automatically attend to the secondary and tertiary costs of an > operation. > > As our species further evolves we may yet make this analytic, > philosophical and moral leap. > > Lawrence We either move forward to Socialism -- or we slip backwards into savage barbarism. The U.S. ruling-class has certainly made _their_ choice. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn93+4ACgkQXo3EtEYbt3HQoQCgwj4tTwbScO4opSqwfO2D3tTP DdUAn0q0NSzdjpFonZFg7CeY3yDSCvMi =SOtm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
