Those readers who can't see that the ultimate goal of the green movement is to impose world socialism in the guise of saving the environment would do well to read the article that ends with these words:
In this regard, climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about the long-postponed social and economic reforms that had been derailed or sabotaged in previous eras by the elite seeking to preserve or increase their privileges.
The difference is that today the very existence of humanity and the planet depend on the institutionalization of economic systems based not on feudal rent extraction or capital accumulation or class exploitation, but on justice and equality.
The question is often asked these days if humanity will be able to get its act together to formulate an effective response to climate change. Though there is no certainty in a world filled with contingency, I am hopeful that it will.
In the social and economic system that will be collectively crafted, I anticipate that there will be room for the market.
However, the more interesting question is: will it have room for capitalism? Will capitalism as a system of production, consumption and distribution survive the challenge of coming up with an effective solution to the climate crisis?
That was just the conclusion. The rest of the article is just as disturbing, containing tidbits like:
The central problem, it is becoming increasingly clear, is a mode of production whose main dynamic is the transformation of living nature into dead commodities, creating tremendous waste in the process. The driver of this process is consumption—or more appropriately, overconsumption—and the motivation is profit or capital accumulation: capitalism, in short.
and...
The end-goal must be adoption of a low-consumption, low-growth, high-equity development model that results in an improvement in people's welfare, a better quality of life for all, and greater democratic control of production.
and...
The transition must be one not only from a fossil-fuel based economy but also from an overconsumption-driven economy.
So, here is the question for Mark Udall and Bill Ritter: How far down this road to low growth by design socialistic ruin are you willing to take Colorado in the name of global warming?
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