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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jul 18 13:18:56 PDT 2016


On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Mark Wain wrote:
> the truth of the matter is if nation-states do not own the energy and power industries, climate change is not going to stop and/or level down.

The Saudi energy and power industries are state owned. So are those of China, Norway, Venezuela et. al. Ownership makes no difference under either state-monopoly capitalism or monopoly-state capitalism. Only a regime of progressively-increasing point-of-extraction-or-importation taxes that makes energy from carbon uneconomic relative to renewable sources offers any present hope of reducing and ultimately eliminating carbon pollution before the atmosphere becomes completely lethal.

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures.

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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