[lbo-talk] not much time to avert catastrophic temp rise

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Apr 12 17:22:55 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> [Carrol Cox says it's already too late, so there's really no urgent
> need to do something now, but apparently the IPCC disagrees.]

Three days before Katrina, already churning across the Gulf.

Cox says we have to prepare New Orleans to survive Katrina.

Doug says that fatalist Cox says itss too late to stop Katrina, so there's no urgent need to do anything.

The inevitability of global warming is the grounds for the urgency of preparing to respond to its consequences. Doug is whistling past the cemetery and wistfully hoping that the capitalists will save us.

Carrol



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