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.
So true. Good post--all of it.