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Vol. 42 No. 11 · 4 June 2020

London Review of Books

The Inequality Engine

Geoff Mann

The trouble with ‘taking ideology seriously’, as Piketty puts it, is that
if you aren’t careful, it can easily become the explanation for 
everything.

Ideology is an inflationary concept: it tends quite quickly to take 
up all the analytical space, so that the only way to get a handle on
it is to claim to occupy some space outside it – which, if we take 
ideology seriously, is by definition impossible. Piketty knows full 
well the concept isn’t straightforward, and wants to define it from 
the off. ‘I use “ideology”,’ he writes in the first few pages, ‘in a
positive and constructive sense to refer to a set of a priori plausible
ideas and discourses describing how society should be structured... 

Piketty’s sense of impending calamity is widespread, especially among
what he calls the ‘Brahmin left’, or what Americans call the ‘liberal
elite’:Those who are educated, economically secure and socially  
progressive.

Piketty hopes the book will encourage a peaceful, policy-driven 
revolution leading to ‘participatory socialism’. It culminates in a
careful proposal for global co-operation on progressive taxation 
of wealth, income and carbon...

We learn a good deal about the lengths to which the powerful will
go to assert their privilege.. and about the only things that have ever
thwarted them: mass violence and progressive taxation.

NEW REPUBLIC CALLS FOR END OF CLIMATE ENFORCEMENT

Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy

Kate Aronoff  June 4, 2020

Late Thursday, California’s Air Resources Board announced the results of the most recent auction of carbon allowances from its cap-and-trade program. It was the first such auction since the coronavirus landed fully on American shores. It brought in just $25 million worth of revenue... As the state faces a pandemic-driven budget crisis... climate and environmental justice programs, investing in jobs and climate mitigation in black and brown communities—could now be at risk. 

 As more and more videos emerge of violent, chaotic police responses to largely peaceful demonstrators, more people are joining calls from black organizers for governments to defund police departments, reallocating budgets toward the types of things that promote genuine physical, economic, and other forms of security in communities of color. Climate experts and campaigners—especially those dismayed by California’s lackluster carbon auction results—would do well to listen... 

As The New Republic’s Melissa Gira Grant explained over the weekend... the Movement for Black Lives has long pushed an “Invest-Divest” policy platform demanding “investments in Black communities, determined by Black communities, and divestment from exploitative forces including prisons, fossil fuels, police, surveillance and exploitative corporations.”...

 If xenophobic governments in Europe offer any indication, the lines between carceral and climate policy will only get fuzzier as temperatures rise.

An ever-growing number of green groups have released statements expressing solidarity with protesters and denouncing police brutality, white supremacy, and the increasingly warlike rhetoric from the White House.,, there’s plenty of common cause to be found in calls to defund the police and invest in a more generous, democratic, and green public sphere, well beyond the scope of what any carbon-pricing measure can accomplish...

THEY'RE SAVING THE WHALES FOR EARTH DAY

Dubai releases sharks to mark National Environment Day

Municipality holds workshops under theme ‘Nature-based solutions’

Dubai: Dubai Municipality marked the National Environment Day on Tuesday by conducting various activities including the release of 10 juvenile Arabian Carpet Sharks back into the ocean at the Jebel Ali Wetland Sanctuary, the civic body said on Wednesday.

The sharks were released in cooperation with the Lost Chambers Aquarium of Atlantis Hotel where they were raised and nurtured. 

LUMPENCLIMATARIAT FLOATS HILARIOUS LENIN JOKE

NEW FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF
      To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism

                Are You Reading Propaganda Right Now?

BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE
Jacobin is politically committed... Despite this almost constant onslaught of brayingly ill-informed and bellicose opinion disguised as news, we at Jacobin are the ones more often dismissed as “propagandists.”

As accusations go, it’s a fun one, in a retro sort of way. But...  Is Jacobin propaganda, and if so, is that a bad thing?... Lenin viewed propaganda as critical to building the socialist movement. In his 1902 pamphlet What Is to Be Done? Lenin jokes—

"Comrade Martynov rises and, turning to me, says sternly:

“Permit me to ask you, has an autonomous editorial board the right to dream without first soliciting the opinion of the Party committees?”

He is followed by Comrade Krichevsky; who . . . continues even more sternly:

“I go further. I ask, has a Marxist any right at all to dream, knowing that according to Marx, mankind always sets itself the tasks it can solve and that tactics is a process of the growth of Party tasks which grow together with the Party?”

The very thought of these stern questions sends a cold shiver down my spine and makes me wish for nothing but a place to hide in."

AQUARIUM CLEANER STOCKS CRASH ON COVID CURE NEWS

In the last 135 days, Watts Up With That  has run 235 posts on do-it-yourself coronavirus cures using chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and other quinine derivatives.  

Many cite Climate Depot, Breitbart and Fox News, some linked to a Schweppes Tonic Water delivery service, and one advocated taking cardiotoxic chloroquine in doses large enough (4.5 grams !)   to risk death as a side effect.

This was not lost on President Trump. After he started taking hydroxychloroquine, many of his fans followed suit, and one died after swallowing non-prescription  chloroquine sold as a fish tank cleaner- it kills algae as well as malaria parasites.

Ignoring FDA and WHO studies that have found  chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine ineffectual the authors of this astonishing amateur pharmacopeia continue to  damn Big Pharma for denigrating cheap drugs in order to market expensive ones. 

Yet until today, none of the 235 WUWT posts, or President Trumps uncountable tweets, mentioned a cheap asma remedy that has just won the Covid survival sweepstakes, the common steroid dexamethasone. 
Nature and The New York Times  report:

The steroid dexamethasone was given to  thousands of people critically ill with the  coronavirus in a randomized, controlled trial.  Dexamethasone shown to save lives A cheap and widely available steroid called dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to reduce deaths among people seriously ill with COVID-19. Researchers working with the Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial, which is assessing the capacity of six medications to treat the disease, announced the findings in a press release. The results have not yet been peer reviewed. The study enrolled 2,100 participants who received dexamethasone and tracked how they fared in comparison with about 4,300 people who received standard care. For people on ventilators, it reduced deaths by about one-third. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death by one-fifth. The drug seems to reduce the damage from a hyperactive immune reaction called cytokine storm. Nature | 5 min read

Coronavirus Live Updates: Drug Proven to Reduce Virus Deaths, Scientists Say

An inexpensive drug reduces virus deaths, scientists say.

Scientists at the University of Oxford said on Tuesday that they have identified what they called the first drug proven to reduce coronavirus-related deaths, after a 6,000-patient trial of the drug in Britain showed that a low-cost steroid could reduce deaths significantly for hospitalized patients.

The steroid, dexamethasone, reduced deaths by a third in patients receiving ventilation, and by a fifth in patients receiving only oxygen treatment, the scientists said. They found no benefit from the drug in patients who did not need respiratory support.

Matt Hancock, Britain’s health secretary, said National Health Service doctors would begin treating patients with the drug on Tuesday afternoon.

The government started stockpiling dexamethasone several months ago because it was hopeful about the potential of the drug, Mr. Hancock said, and now has 200,000 doses on hand.

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“Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in Covid-19,” said Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, and one of the chief investigators for the trial, said in a statement. “The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment.”

Professor Horby said that dexamethasone should now become the “standard of care in these patients,” noting that it is inexpensive, widely available and can be used immediately.

PRESIDENT HAILS CHINA GLOBAL WARMING HOAX AS SURE- FIRE CHINESE VIRUS CURE

THE AMERICAN THINKER 

MARCH 17, 202O
By Andrea Widburg

For decades, leftists have blamed all actual or potentially harmful events on global warming.  They then justify their political initiatives — from socialism to open borders to abortion — as reasonable responses to climate change.

Since the Chinese Virus appeared... leftists have fallen silent about global warming.  That silence may have to become permanent because it seems that coronavirus hates the heat... 

Indeed, that common knowledge is what led President Trump to say he believes that the coronavirus will start retreating in April.

Two studies indicate that Trump's instincts may be correct... 

• Immediately give up using re-usable tote bags, and go for single use plastic grocery bags. Those reusable tote bags pick up germs and spread them all over the place for days. 

• To the extent that you must travel around, you can avoid all common conveyances.

• Crank up the thermostat... why take a chance in the environment you can control?

      Will Miss Widburg win the next Heartland

   Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award?

S. Fred Singer got his after authoring just 200 American Thinker essays, and  she's ground out over  500 in the last six months alone !

BAD COP SHUTS DOWN FAMED S.T.E.M. JOURNAL, CLIMATE ACTION DELAYED

End of world  nears as  woke  editorial collective of  STEM weekly takes day off to snooze through socially distanced  struggle session

        EDITORIAL 02 JUNE 2020

Delaying COP26 is not a reason to delay climate action

Coronavirus has delayed climate talks by a year. But the planet doesn’t have extra time, so action on global warming cannot be postponed.
  Note from the editors: 20 JUNE 2020

 Nature joins #ShutDownSTEM
We will delay publication of the journal, and spend the day planning how to help eradicate anti-Black racism in academia and STEM.

 PARISIAN ACTIVISTS GAVE COP-23 ACTION DELAYERS A WARM WELCOME

CAN BAT-CHOMPING ECOCRUCIFIXES SAVE THE UNICORNS ?

RSPB: We Must Build More 

Bird-Chopping Eco Crucifixes!

Britain must build thousands more bat-chomping bird-slicing eco crucifixes in order to stave off “dangerous climate change” says the RSPB.

By James Delingpole
RSPB stands for Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and, no, this is not The Onion.

Yes, Britain’s oldest and biggest ornithological society really has put out a report demanding the erection of yet more avian Cuisinarts – despite swathes of evidence showing that these monstrosities are responsible for killing many millions of birds around the world every year.

Its rationale:

The way that we currently use energy in the UK is not sustainable. We use too much of it, we use it inefficiently, and our main sources of energy, fossil fuels, are driving us towards dangerous levels of climate change – one of the greatest long-term threats to wildlife.
In order to save Britain’s wildlife from the alleged threat of climate change, in other words, we’ve got to first got to slice and dice it with the turbine blades that, by some estimates, kill 22 million birds a year.

Britain currently has around 5,000 wind turbines. According to the RSPB, it could do with around 20,000 more. More solar panels too. And wave power. And carbon capture and storage. And herds of organic unicorn to harvest all waste and pollution and magically transform it to special fairy energy which can be sprinkled on the cots of every new born child so as to instil in it a true appreciation of Mother Gaia’s beauty. (I may have invented the last one)

Mysteriously no mention is made of the actual cost of this exercise.

We’re shown a triangle at the beginning which illustrates our ‘energy trilemma’ – Environmental Sustainability; Energy Security; and Affordability.

MEANWHILE , BACK IN THE UNIMAGINED PRESENT :

Cats kill up to 3.7B birds annually

Chuck Raasch, USA TODAY

Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades-old debate over the feline threat to native animals. The estimates are much higher than the hundreds of millions of annual bird deaths previously attributed to cats... The report is scheduled to be published Tuesday in Nature Communications. 

 "I was stunned," said ornithologist Peter Marra of the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute. He and Smithsonian colleague Scott Loss, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Tom Will conducted the study. It's part of a three-year Fish and Wildlife Service-funded effort to estimate the number of birds killed by predators, chemicals and in collisions with wind generators and windows...

IS THE NEXT STEP TO DEFUND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND GIVE THE MONEY TO NCAR

WOULD VOGUE LEND THEM MEGHAN MARKLE TO EDIT IT?

AFTER 360 YEARS OF  PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS 
 WILL THE ROYAL SOCIETY  LAUNCH A REVIEW OF 
BAD  CLIMATE  SCIENCE  BLOGS & WORSE 
CLIMATE  FASHION  MAGAZINES ?

CONGRATULATIONS TO RAYPIERRE ON HIS FRS ELECTION

( AS NOBODY AT CLIMATE ETC.  WATTS UP WITH THAT , THE GWPF, HEARTLAND OR CFACT 

 NOTICED, DONORS TRUST OUGHT TO DOCK THEIR PAY! )

ANNALS OF SPAM: WHICH CAME FIRST ?

The Art of Distance No. 11 The Paris Review opposes racism and violence—both the recent, bold-faced demonstrations of police brutality, and the structural injustice that has been present in our nation since its founding. We are committed to being a part of the change: we will work with our writers, our readers, and our team to make publishing a more equitable, dynamic, and creative place. We believe language opens paths to truth and justice. This week we are sharing several Writers at Work interviews with Black authors who have provided us—and generations of readers—guidance and inspiration, and are distributing a list of resources for those affected by the crisis. The Paris Review Black Lives Matter Dear Friends, Here America is again, with yet another and another and another brutal, racist killing. Our hearts grieve for the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the many, many others who have lost loved ones to the deadly virus of systemic racism. People of color continue to suffer, as they have for generations, at the hands of a system engineered to hold them back, hold them down, and dispossess them of their liberties, their lands, and even their lives. Their lives matter. Black lives matter. This same systemic racism driving police brutality also underlies the racial disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis - both of which have hit Americans of color first and worst. And this same system drives our different vulnerabilities to the devastating consequences of climate change. To paraphrase the author William Gibson, the climate crisis is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. This system of racial injustice must be transformed. Not just individual law enforcement officers. Not just individual citizens. Not just individual elected officials. We need to go deeper and transform our social values, our culture, our economics, our politics, and even our psychology. Dear AAAS Members, We are of our community – and our community is in pain. We cannot escape the problems of society – for we carry the successes and challenges of our community with us wherever we go. Left unchecked, racism, sexism, homophobia, and fear of the other can enter any organization or community – and destroy the foundations upon which we must build our future. The past few harrowing days have laid bare how a lack of trust, respect, and leadership can tear at our social fabric. In these times, we must pull together and provide leadership in our own communities. Leadership is not about having all of the answers. It starts with unwavering principles that can steady us when the world seems unbalanced...  Society needs us more than ever... Our programs, publications, and advocacy are critical to a better and more just world... Sincerely, Sudip S. Parikh, PhD Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals American Association for the Advancement of Science