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> Whether or not the right plays games with the issue - there's still the matter of whether global warming should be a central issue for the left. There's still a question over whether socialists should shove their traditional core issues aside and become an appendage of bourgeois environmentalism. Is it left-wing to join in with the right and tell the working class: guess what, remember how we talked about liberating the productive forces and advancing from where capitalism left off? Forget all that - now austerity and anti-consumerism is the order of the day, because mother earth takes priority over human interests.
Yes, exactly my point. The use of straw men like "mother earth" (presumed to be high priority for NASA, various national academies, and scientists at large) and invoking pampered greenies at the expense of ignoring direct bread-and-butter threats to production like dought, flooding and sea level rise can all be invoked from a leftist stand just as much from a rightist.
Why don't we see more of it?
-- Andy