[lbo-talk] [pen-l] New technologies won't be enough to resolve climate crisis

Eugene Coyle e.coyle at me.com
Sun Jul 17 17:33:44 PDT 2016


Michael Klare, just 2 or 3 or 4 years ago on the same Tom Dispatch where this came from, was telling us that peak oil was upon us and that war, migration and chaos was unavoidable.

Now he tells us the opposite, that the demand he describes is the problem and that supply for the growing demand will be available. Klare should not be relied on re energy forecasts. Nor for political analysis.

What’s worse, in this current piece, Klare tells us that it is a “addiction” to oil that is the problem. And Klare, along with Bill McKibben, stresses the power of the fossil fuel industry, those meanies, rather than the failure of the rest of us to do something political about this.

Finally, green energy is a technological solution to climate change when we need a political one. We can’t afford to supply clean technology to the world without a drastic income redistribution both within the North and between North and South.

I’m tired of reading liberal analysis which only serves to weaken the public’s potential understanding of what is going on.

Gene



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