And capitalism is as deadly to the environment as to the workers. Each new environmental catastrophe shows that private property over the earth's resources means the earth's ruin. We have just seen a political crisis over overfishing in the north Atlantic. The destruction of the world's rain forests continues. The East Asian boom is straining the region's water supplies and bringing other environmental disasters. It's not that scientists and thoughtful people didn't see these catastrophes -- it's that marketplace forces are calling the shots. The marketplace is ravishing the environment. It's a deadly mixture: capitalism with the gigantic technological forces of today.
(From The rebirth of communism, the article introducing
the first issue of Communist Voice , April 15, 1995)
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AL GORE'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AND THE FIASCOS
OF CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM
by Joseph Green, 83K
(Issue #41, vol. 14 , #2, Feb. 20, 2008)
Subheads:
The growing consensus on global warming
Fiascos of corporate environmentalism
Carbon trading and the failure to meet the goals of the Kyoto Treaty
--The looming biofuel disaster
--American corn ethanol and higher food prices
--Sugar cane ethanol and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
--The palm oil fiasco
Al Gore, advocate for corporate environmentalism
Two types of global warming deniers (one type that Gore fights and one type that Gore represents)
Fighting global warming requires comprehensive economic planning
Mass participation
Environmentalism and the class struggle
MARXISM AND GLOBAL WARMING
Marx and Engels on protecting the environment--
a review of John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology
by Joseph Green, 106K
(Issue #40, vol. 13, #2, August, 2007)
THE COMING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS,
THE FAILURE OF THE FREE MARKET,
AND THE FEAR OF A CARBON DICTATORSHIP
(the Kyoto Protocol, carbon tax and trading,
direct regulation, democratic vs. capitalist planning)
by Joseph Green, 128K
(Issue #39, vol. 13, #1, January 24, 2007)
Subheads:
The environmental crisis is upon us
New Orleans, a sign of things to come
Failure of the free market:
The Montreal Protocol and the protection of the ozone layer
The Kyoto Protocol and the fiasco of carbon trading
The failed balance-sheet of the Kyoto Protocol
The carbon tax -- another attempt at a market solution
The record of energy deregulation
A comparison of Soviet planning to carbon trading and carbon taxes
Democratic planning and the direct regulation of production:
Major changes throughout the economy
Material balances, not "true cost pricing"
Large-scale production
Mass participation
Planning for mass welfare
The issue of ownership
No lasting progress if there is fear of moving towards socialism
War-style environmentalism:
Tim Flannery's nightmare -- the "carbon dictatorship"
THE DEVASTATION OF NEW ORLEANS
(Issue #37, vol. 12, #1, February 22, 2006)
THE DEADLY SMOG IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Capitalist pollution in SOUTHEAST ASIA (on the recent deadly smog)
by Frank Arango, Seattle (25K)
(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, October 15, 1997)
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