On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
> Now, with the cancer-
> like progress of world capitalism, we face the ongoing reality of
> destructive, industry-generated, climate change whose possible effects
> range from grave (the best case) to (non-cosmic) catastrophe caused by
> uncontrollable feedbacks (melting polar ice--increased planetary
> albedo--melting of permafrost and upset of deep-ocean methane clydrate
> deposits--release of massive quantities of methane--intensified
> Arrhenius effect--melting of Antarctic icecap, and thence to utter
> ruin). If people today cannot become politically mobilized
If you phrase it that way, people will just pull their heads in like turtles. If you can't tap the optimism that Trotsky talked about - convince people that we can triumph over climate change - then you're not going to get anywhere. You're not going to get many to sign on to the agenda of mutual ruin.
Doug