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1 comment:
Lance-
Your talk was a home run, and created one of the best discussions ever at a Regional Conference. For the book, I think the 3 principles should have added to them planning and cooperation. These, of course, could also be considered subsets of collective ownership. Either way, I think it is important to highlight them in order to bring out the potential for "war mobilization"-style approaches to environmental fixes. Like you said, the resources exist to make public transportation pervasively available, but it requires too much investment for capitalism be willing. The same could be said about creating alternative energy infrastructures, carrying out large-scale cleanup and restoration projects, reorienting agriculture, and even maximizing research and development for technological solutions. I think it's helpful to point out the way capitalism musters gigantic total mobilizations for war, but not to solve the environmental crisis. This makes people see how solvable the problems are, and how blocked by capitalism. In this light the principles of cooperation and (especially) planning are pivotal.
In fact, presenting things this way could help to expose the limits not only of market-friendly reform, but of anarcho-primitivism as well. Those who want to "return to the Pleistocene" etc. cannot offer any solutions to cleaning up the existing mess, which requires global coordination. I often find it helpful to point out in this debate that going local or primitivist would require a massive die-off of humanity, and that at the end of the hypothetical day we would still be left with a less efficient, more destructive use of energy and natural resources than attainable with a global division of labor and global interaction of scientific/technical activity.
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