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Is This What It's All About?

Started by dsnope, 08/08/2012 06:02PM
Posted 08/08/2012 06:02PM | Edited 08/08/2012 06:03PM Opening Post
Here lies the solution to hot weather:

The central lesson of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else, meaning that human activities interact with nature in sometimes problematic ways. Thus, evidence accumulating this summer of powerful and accelerating changes in the global climate offers a warning that capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profits is pushing the global climate system toward runaway global warming.

The physical evidence has appeared in the form of intense heat waves and a spreading drought covering two-thirds of the U.S., the continuing collapse of ice shelves in Antarctica, and now the sudden melt-off of ice over the whole of Greenland.

The only viable choice in responding to the ecological crisis of capitalism is socialism. Continuing the effort to reform capitalism is a dead end, as Rio+20 has unequivocally demonstrated. Abandoning modern society also is not a choice, as that would mean abandoning the very tools we need to limit the impact of the crisis and adapt to a changing climate.

In between these extremes lies socialism, a system that would redirect the wealth of society to meeting human needs and restoring and preserving a healthy environment. Through central planning under the command of the working class, human society would be able to address and react to even some of the harshest aspects of global warming.


http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/ecological-crisis-capitalism.html
Posted 08/08/2012 10:57PM #1
For some people, yes. For others, it's communism. But for the overwhelming number of progressive thinkers in America, it's neither. They just choose iliberalism. Study your American history and you will learn that this country has never had a viable far left or far right-- e.g., the German-American bund of the 1930s, the American communist party of the same decade, neither of which meant anything politically or socially. We tend not to stray very far from the center.

This is said in the face of the ridiculous black/white viewpoint prevalent in modern American politics, in which anyone with a slightly more liberal or conservative outlook than the "correct" view is reflexively consigned to the opposite end of the spectrum.

I think most people have a fair range of opinions. A couple of examples: the first from Soc 101. Truly rich folks can afford to be socially liberal, they don't feel threatened. But they are often very conservative on fiscal policy. The poor, of course, might tend to feel exactly the reverse. Second, the outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the latest mass killings, in my home town of Milwaukee, came from everywhere.

In short, there is a simple answer for everything, and it is always wrong.