[lbo-talk] Myth of the Labor Aristocracy & Opportunism

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 11:20:45 PDT 2011


P.S. By "standards of living," I of course mean resource consumption. I'm well aware that there are less input-intensive ways to lead happy (happier?) lives, but don't think that's the conversation we're having.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:

A gimmick, sure. What isn't these days? As for "sad," point me towards any
> peer-reviewed study arguing that the mainstream consensus on carrying
> capacity is wrong, and that the earth contains more than enough natural
> resources to offer seven billion people Western standards of living, and
> I'll take it a little more seriously than name-calling, on which I won't
> waste a moment of thought.
>

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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