[lbo-talk] Politics or the environment; whats more critical?

[Gail Brock]

--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
It seems to me that as we debate, vote (or
not)agitate, counter-propagandize and work in various
ways to address issues of corporatism, inequality,
racism and so much more that there is an immense
problem looming over all of this:

 
global warming.
. . .[snip] . . .
All struggles for greater economic and political
democracy are necessary efforts but I wonder if, as 
we work on each of these individual fights, we should
spare some collective energy for the massive effort it
will take to change our way of life.
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Is global warming separable from the issues of
corporatism et al.?  Are we going to talk Halliburton
into not going after energy profits because of global
warming?  I think our odds are better if we just keep
working on the cause -- greater economic and political
democracy.

And I agree that global warming is starting to have
serious effects that are probably not reversible in
the immediate future (defrosting of the Alaskan tundra
and the European Alps, for example).  That'll probably
change weather patterns, with consequences for people
who live in areas that become increasingly vulnerable
to drought, storms or other weather conditions that
weren't frequent when they started living there.  This
makes the fight for economic and political democracy
even more important -- the powerless are going to pay
the costs of global warming, so let's work on getting
some power for when we need it.

   -- Gail, wishing August would get cooler

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