[lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/6/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> The discussion we need, perhaps, is not how to prevent global warming,
> but how to prepare to survive under the conditions created by it --
> i.e., to regard global warming the way we regard an approching rain
> squall: we don't wonder how to stop it but take our umbrella with us.
> Global warming is coming, and debate about how to stop it has become
> pointless. How do we prepare for it.

Especially if you live in the global South, yes.  At least hundreds of
millions of people, probably more, will be inevitably displaced, and
there will likely be major social and political upheavals because of
that.  Unfortunately, capitalism in itself doesn't create conditions
for socialism, let alone communism or anarchism, but only what Marx
called "barracks communism" at best.
-- 
Yoshie