[lbo-talk] Re: U.S. emergency plans: a disasterwaiting to happen]

[Carrol Cox]

I think it is a good question to ask, because it pushes (or might push)
those who disagree with us to attempt to work out the politics of their
position. The more you try to specify the political process by which
global warming might be stopped, the more hopeless it seems. 

Your last point also points to how the vaunted "flexibility" of
capitalism is, in this case, a basic weakness of the system. Capitalism
by its very nature is far TOO flexible to be able to respond to _this_
crisis. We need the very opposite: rigid inflexibility. :-) 

Carrol

Bryan Atinsky wrote:
> 
> More of a question than a critique.
> 
> I agree with you, but I feel the need to ask anyway...
> [clip]
> I know the problem with this assumption (besides the fact that even
> getting the US and EU on board is a pipe dream)...which is that the
> production of GHG emitting industrial processes would just be
> transferred to places where there aren't the restrictions.
> 
> Bryan