On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Patrick Bond wrote:
> The main force for a genuine alternative to capitalism's fake
> market mitigation strategy will be public pressure.
Do you & your co-authors take on the substance of any of the bourgeois proposals?
E.g. <http://www.ceres.org/Call_to_Action/index.php>:
> Leadership and action by the US government to achieve sizable,
> sensible long-term reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in
> accordance with the 60-90% reductions below 1990 levels by 2050
> that scientists and climate models suggest are urgently needed to
> avoid dangerous climate change.
Which is pretty similar to Stern, no? Their goals are on the light side, and they're vague about how to get there (and in interviews, they remain vague), but it's also not "fake." It seems like bad politics to me to dismiss them so casually; wouldn't it be more fruitful to say, "Yes, it's good to see such important people acknowledging the seriousness of the problem, but we can do a lot better than this..."? Especially since there's not all that big or powerful a movement on our side.
Doug