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Good Lord. Why don’t Alexander Cockburn and Paul Craig Roberts get a room?
Amazing coming from an arch leftist like Cockburn!
Bingo!
Actually since 1998 the trend has been a downward temperature trend.
Alexander Cockburn is a rabid leftist, so it’s kind of weird to see him writing this.
—bflr—
Cockburn would consider the latter as synonymous with redistribution of wealth, which is, in the end, what the whole thing is about. While such agreements as Kyoto serve to move money from one place to another, in the end they are a recompense to undeveloped countries for remaining undeveloped. That isn't "social justice" according to most interpretations of that leftwing cant, and precisely what "environmental justice" is remains a little murky, at least to me. But under the intellectual terms of the left this is a condescension that is the next thing to colonialism if not that shibboleth itself. "Live in mud huts because it's Good For The Earth, and we'll pay you money so we can continue to use our espresso machines without guilt. But for Pete's sake don't presume to the possession of espresso machines yourselves!" That's not exactly the stuff of "Workers Of The World, Unite!"
The real difficulty is that the left is so certain that the destruction of capitalist society is the precursor to a socialist utopia that it proceeds thinking that the latter must follow the former inevitably. It never does, especially if the means to that destruction make the rebuilding of any society impossible.
Cockburn is a leftie who loves him some conspiracy theories. But when he is going after the nutbags on the Left it’s especially enjoyable.
I don't agree with Cockburn's characterization of corporations, but it does explain why both sides have jumped on the global warming band-wagon. Businesses and carbon traders see potential profits while leftists and one-worlders see social change. Either way, U.S. citizens get screwed.
“The Kyoto Accord must be one of the most reactionary political manifestos in the history of the world; it represents a horrible privileging of the advanced industrial powers over developing nations.”
Great article but the author goes well astray here. Kyoto was designed to set the stage for a massive transfer of wealth from the “advanced industrial powers” to the ‘third world through the cap-and-trade system. Under this system the first world would send money to the third world to buy the ‘indulgences’. IOW, your utility bill or gasoline bill would become a tax paid to the third world.
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The 8th-grade daughter of a family friend recently received a school science quiz which included four slanted multiple choice questions on global warming. She wrote in the margin “I don’t believe in global warming” and declined to answer the questions. It didn’t do much for her grade, but her conscience was clear.
Whether one agrees with Cockburn on capitalism or socialism ( I certainly am not with him on his economic views), the fact is what he said took great courage. His own side is roundly kicking him and looking for an appropriate tree to lynch him from.