You seem really, really sure a priori that market solutions will never, ever work, that elites are really, really eeeeeevil and venal, and that their interests never, ever coincide with those of other people.
--- Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> > ... I've been bantering back & forth on my list
> with Patrick over
> > things like the Stern Review, whose content he's
> been misrepresenting.
>
> Hey comrade, I've been fairly clear that Stern is a
> huckster for carbon
> trading, no matter that the Review is a bit more
> nuanced. Stern wants a
> thirty-fold increase pronto, and he's got no
> regulatory system of the
> sort that would prevent the kind of scamming
> detailed below. What do you
> say, Doug, isn't it time to lay off market
> 'solutions'? We've been
> saying this since October 2004, when the Durban
> Group for Climate
> Justice, with a nascent global movement that
> includes FoEI - arguably
> the finest red-green international network. Why the
> long learning curve?
> Why the fealty to elite gimmicks?
>
> Patrick
>
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