----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> I got this piece of info years ago from an O'Connor student at
> UC-Santa Cruz, who was studying the organic industry of Northern
> California. My point in flogging it is to trouble upper-middle-class
> enviros, who think they're helping the earth with their sensitive
> lifestyle choices, but not bothering to notice the human labor
> involved. Recycling, too, produces lots of awful jobs sorting trash
> for low pay. Which isn't to say that organic produce isn't better or
> that recycling is bad. It is to say that styles of consumption can't
> change much, and can make some things worse, unless production
> arrangements are revised.
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Industrial ecology has the potential for being the institutional pathway of a water and sewer socialism for the 21st century.
Ian