Artificial Scarcity or Natural Limits?

Mark Jones Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk
Tue May 12 11:18:17 PDT 1998


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> the Green theory and practice that does not
> foreground questions of social relations and chooses to lead us to dwell
> upon the Earth's 'carrying capacity' can't be and shouldn't be synthesized
> with marxism.
>

Which Green theory is that? All the Greens I read, even the ones who worked for the World Bank like Herman Daly, do foreground the issue of 'social justice' in matters like food distribution. In that respect they do not disagree from what are in actual fact the pro-capitalist sentiments of David Harvey. Social justice politics is and always has been a politics of accommodation with capitalism, and that is exactly Harvey's politics.

Mark



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