HIGH IMPACT TV CAN TAKE HALF A DECADE TO PRODUCE.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD PONDER THAT FACT WHEN
INTERMINABLE FOUNDATION CREDITS ROLL,
AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE ,
AT THE END OF EVERY PUBLIC TELEVISION RERUN OF
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE :
THE NATION NOVEMBER 2011
Capitalism vs. the Climate
By Naomi Klein
... Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot...They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
As British blogger and Heartland regular James Delingpole has pointed out, “Modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the left: redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, greater government intervention, regulation.” Heartland’s Bast puts it even more bluntly: For the left, “Climate change is the perfect thing…. It’s the reason why we should do everything [the left] wanted to do anyway.”
Here’s my inconvenient truth: they aren’t wrong... when it comes to the real-world consequences of those scientific findings [they] may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying “green” products and creating clever markets in pollution.
Just a minute!
Could Naomi's inconvenient fear be that given access to energy, capitalism could deposit her politics on the dustheap of history?
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... Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot...They have concluded that this can be done only by radically reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
As British blogger and Heartland regular James Delingpole has pointed out, “Modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the left: redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, greater government intervention, regulation.” Heartland’s Bast puts it even more bluntly: For the left, “Climate change is the perfect thing…. It’s the reason why we should do everything [the left] wanted to do anyway.”
Here’s my inconvenient truth: they aren’t wrong... when it comes to the real-world consequences of those scientific findings [they] may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying “green” products and creating clever markets in pollution.
Just a minute!
Could Naomi's inconvenient fear be that given access to energy, capitalism could deposit her politics on the dustheap of history?
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