----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Fisher" <jfisher at igc.org>
> that environmentalism might "appeal to an upper class contempt for
the
> workers" doesn't make environmentalism per se or even in practice
> anti-worker. on the contrary, it seems to me that
anti-environmentalism
> appeals to a certain contempt for the worker, both in on-the-job
safety and
> in her everyday life. when the upper class live in gated communities
> drinking bottled water, breathing purified recycled air (as in
mexico city,
> for instance), and eating expensive organic greens and free range
meats,
> "the environment" seems very far away -- much further than those
investments
> in oil, gas, electricity, genetic agriculture, agrochemicals, etc.
etc. etc.
> it's hard not to think of Tyrell in his ziggurat in Blade Runner.
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Two excellent texts that hit on building worker-green alliances and
complementarities, both published by Guilford are:
The Point of Production by John Wooding, Charles Levenstein
The Struggle for Ecological Democracy by Daniel J. Faber (Editor),
Ian