[lbo-talk] DC blizzard dooms cap and trade

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Good point, I'm not sure why I singled out that passage, I do think his
critique of petit-bourgeois "green" politics is on the money.  Also, aren't
things like the finite nature of time an absolute limit on the system?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Matthias Wasser
<matthias.wasser at gmail.com>wrote:


> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
> <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > ...Capital is value in motion – it
> > succeeds in reproducing itself ultimately only by expanding. So-called
> > capitalist solutions are no solutions at all – emissions trading is
> > obviously a scam, and can only be a scam, since if carbon credits are
> > strictly and permanently limited carbon markets are not markets, as no
> > expansion is possible.
> >
>
> This is nonsensical. Are venues for buying and selling rights to land not
> markets either?
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