File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9711, message 265


From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: Global warming
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:31:19 -0600 (CST)


Mark,

Just one query on 3rd-world use of fossil fuel. As I understand it,
large numbers of families in many 3rd-world countries use wood as
their fuel for cooking, and those cooking fires are heavy 
polluters. I'm not sure of the total energy "equation" here. Probably
gas-cooking would be less polluting--but that involves all the 
energy cost of building the whole vast array of what needs to go
into using natural gas (beginning with the additional iron ore,
etc. needed for the stoves, the pipelines, the pipeline-building
machinery.

I would tentatively presume that (leaving aside political and social
pressures from 3rd world peoples' knowledge that the technology 
exists) it would still in the long run, from an environmental
perspective as well as social perspective, be desirable to make
that shift in technology. But I haven't even begun to think of 
the complexities involved.

Carrol



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