[lbo-talk] Doomed

[John Thornton]

At 11:29 AM 10/9/2004, you wrote:
>Patrick Bond wrote:
>
>>Haven't seen ecoequity site yet, but there is a brand new 'Campaign Against
>>Climate Aggression' - based on campaigning by dozens of excellent Third
>>World and northern ecojustice activist groups - which in Durban, South
>>Africa we began to establish this week. One of the main concerns is the
>>false market 'solution' to the market problem of C02 emissions: carbon
>>trading. 'Phanzi carbon trading, phanzi,' (away!), was the snappy slogan of
>>a leading Soweto activist, to a public workshop of 150 people Wednesday
>>night. Stay tuned...
>
>I'm working on setting up a radio debate between global warming skeptic 
>(and James Heartfield favorite) Bjorn Lomborg and EcoEquity's Tom 
>Athanasiou. Lomborg's got a book coming out next month from Cambridge.
>
>This coming Thursday, radio debate between Sebastian Mallaby, author of a 
>new book about Wolfie & the World Bank, and Patrick McCully of 
>International Rivers Network (an organization that Mallaby beats up on in 
>the book).
>
>Doug

I thought Mallaby was critical of NGO's in general. Apparently he has some 
issue with their not being "accountable" enough but in reality his 
complaints read more like resentment of any influence they may exert. He 
seems to defer to the World Bank whenever any conflicts develop between it 
and any NGO's or independent commissions. I rather liked McCullys book 
"Silenced Rivers". It ought to be an interesting discussion.

John Thornton