Re: Radicalizing the carbon cycle
On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Patrick Bond wrote:
The main force for a genuine alternative to capitalism’s fake
market mitigation strategy will be public pressure.
Do you & your co-authors take on the substance of any of the
bourgeois proposals?
E.g. http://www.ceres.org/Call_to_Action/index.php:
Leadership and action by the US government to achieve sizable,
sensible long-term reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in
accordance with the 60-90% reductions below 1990 levels by 2050
that scientists and climate models suggest are urgently needed to
avoid dangerous climate change.
Which is pretty similar to Stern, no? Their goals are on the light
side, and they’re vague about how to get there (and in interviews,
they remain vague), but it’s also not “fake.” It seems like bad
politics to me to dismiss them so casually; wouldn’t it be more
fruitful to say, “Yes, it’s good to see such important people
acknowledging the seriousness of the problem, but we can do a lot
better than this…”? Especially since there’s not all that big or
powerful a movement on our side.
Doug