[lbo-talk] [DEBATE] : (Fwd) Doug Henwood on elite climate changestrategy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Apr 22 15:20:04 PDT 2007


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> 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.

When considering the elite of any one nation, this is usually true.

When considering the possibility of the needed number of national elites coming together to make a difference, this is absolutely certain.

Carrol
>
> --- 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
> >
>
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
>
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>
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