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.)
Lessons from the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit of 2009
by Joseph Green
(Issue #44, vol 16, #1, Jan. 15, 2010)
'CAP
AND
TRADE' WON'T WORK: the
politicians vs. the environment (expanded and referenced version of a
talk at the Detroit Workers' Voice Discussion Group meeting of Sept.
21, 2008, given under the title "McCain and Obama vs. the environment",
45K
(Issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)
About
The
Green-Collar Economy of Van Jones:
green jobs are not enough!
by Joseph Green
(Issue #43, vol. 15, #1, June 1, 2009)
THE
CARBON TAX -- another failed free-market
measure to avoid environmental planning
by Joseph Green, 95K
(Issue #42, vol. 14, #2, Aug. 20, 2008)
AL
GORE'S
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE and the fiascos of corporate environmentalism
by Joseph Green, 83K
(Issue #41, vol. 14 , #1, 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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