Saturday, September 8, 2018

Who Is Gonna Clean Up The Mess ???

Here are two reports which more or less summarize why efforts to "save" our planet likely will come to naught:

(1) Some do-gooders are proposing nationalization of extractive industries as a way to fight climate change:

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/jeremy-corbyn-labour-climate-change/

(2) An arbitration panel in The Hague has decided that Chevron does not have to pay for pollution of the Amazon:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2018/09/08/schiedsgericht-chevron-muss-nicht-fuer-amazonas-verschmutzung-zahlen/ [translation required]

Granted, the capitalist system is BROKEN. But turning the resulting mess over to bureaucracies to "fix" ain't going to work either. We need a brand new solution, and it's likely to be breathtaking in its scope and impact.

Think Ghost Dance Religion (or The Second Coming). I don't think anything else could work.

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