> here's a pretty good article by john bellamy foster looking at jim
> hansen's proposals for dealing with CCC... JBF includes some pretty
> legitimate critiques of hansen's positions, but i'm a bit confused still by
> his idea of the 'environmental proletariat' (he uses the example of the
> chinese, particularly in guangzhou and the pearl delta region, as being
> particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise.... but these effects will only
> take place *after *the climate tipping points, so i'm not sure why this
> model works or is relevant at all, in terms of trying to stave off these
> eventualities).
>
> just off the new issue of *monthly review*. also of interest are the
> articles on eco-marxism in china, but those won't be uploaded until later
> in the month.
>
> "For humanity today, facing both climate change and a more generalized
> planetary ecological catastrophe, due to the crossing of critical planetary
> boundaries, there is no choice left consistent with long-term survival
> but to leave capitalism’s burning house.... A real solution demands a
> radical alteration in social priorities—the kind of revolutionary
> transformation that could occur at unimagined speed if the population were
> once to reach its own social-environmental tipping point.... [N]o gradual
> exit is possible, [for] time is too short."
>
>
> http://monthlyreview.org/2013/02/01/james-hansen-and-the-climate-change-exit-strategy
>
> for more critique of hansen, check out my review of his *storms of my
> grandchildren *from 3 years ago:
> http://www.countercurrents.org/sethness151209.htm
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