[lbo-talk] global food supplies falling?

[Jason]

On 2007-03-19 03:28:34 +0000 Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> 
wrote:
> Material conditions are where you find revolutionary potential.  
> Global 
> warming
> signals the breakdown of the capitalist system.  Quite simply, the 
> system
> cannot expand without killing its "market" and it cannot live without
> expanding.  As this comes to be recognized by more and more workers, 
> a need to
> replace capitalism (a system rooted in the ever expanding production 
> of
> commodities by the producing class) will develop.

Wow, I almost hate to break it to you but I'm in close contact with 
the sustainable building industry and a lot of enviro types through my 
job (no my choice, by the way) and regardless of what one makes of 
global warming there is absolutely zero revolutionay potential in it. 
At the absolute best you could say that eco concerns will be - and in 
fact already are being - consumed by capitalism. At worst... well, 
I'll leave it to others on this list.

 From where I'm standing I see no shortage of businesses making plenty 
of money from global warming, real, imagined, man-made or natural.

Jason.

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