[lbo-talk] George Monbiot on the future of oil

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Dec 1 22:15:00 PST 2003


George Monbiot wrote:
>... Running the world's cars from wind or solar power would require
>a greater investment than any civilisation has ever made before...

As Monbiot points out, our civilization faces a crisis vastly

greater than any past civilization ever confronted. Our civilization also possesses human and technological resources orders of magnitude greater than were possessed by any past civilization. If, as appears certain, the capitalist social order is incapable of mobilizing the resources required to make the investments on which the survival of civilization depends, the case for its replacement by a new communist social order dedicated to freedom, abundance, equality, and leisure becomes even more patently irrefutable.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64



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