How Global Warming and Capitalism Are Deeply Intertwined
It is no accident that environmental crisis is gathering as social injustice is deepening and growing inequality is impairing democratic institutions.
June 14, 2010In 1970 James Gustave Speth co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has become one of America’s most well-endowed and high-profile environmental organizations. He worked in the White House under President Carter, chairing the Council on Environmental Quality; when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected in 1992, Speth was a senior adviser to their transition team. He spent the 1990s as the administrator of the United Nations Development Program,
The escalating processes of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment and toxification–which continue despite decades of warnings and earnest effort–are a severe indictment of capitalism
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Fifty years ago, the environment was a mess and half of Red China was starving due to the stupidity of their communist leaders. Greens yearn to bring us back to the days of mass starvation and environmental filth.
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.” -Ottmar Edenhoffer, ipcc
“The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality, and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated.” — Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace
Well what else would you expect from activist organizations that aren’t interested in the facts? They want everyone to live in Yurts without electrical power and to drink their own urine.
Biotic impoverishment? I heard on the radio Friday that the black bear population in New Mexico is around 6,000, up from just hundreds in the 1920s.