File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1996/96-06-marxism/96-06-26.161, message 177


Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 12:53:06 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Reply to: RoIf's "green" warfare


At 10:50 AM 6/23/96, Rolf Martens wrote:

>See my reply to Doug Henwood earlier today under "Re: Reply to Raymond
>Hickman...". There I'm quoting from the UN so-called Brundtland Report
>"Our Common Future" of 1987 the preposterous statement that it would be
>*bad*, a "destruction of the Earth's ecosystem", even, if the Third World
>countries got to use as much energy per capita as do the industrial
>countries today!

So a billion Chinese driving cars is nothing to worry about, right? I think
a quarter-billion Americans driving cars is *already* enough to worry
about, but, hey, I'm just a brownshirt.

>2) Many attempts to prevent even hydropower projects in 3rd world
>countries. The reasons given for this are generally: "To protect
>the environment, or protect the interests of those who live there
>where those dams etc are being planned". And these things should be
>protected too. But it's clear from the circumstances that some very
>powerful forces are using these things as *pretexts*.

So the World Bank's financing of dams in India, and of power plants
throughout the "developing" world is just an illusion, and the greens who
fight these projects are really the true agents of the bourgeoisie?

>3) Precisely the "global warming" gigantic propaganda hoax. It's
>directed against increased use of chemical fuels, not least in the
>3rd world. And it *is* a hoax. I'll return to that. "Your" Fidel
>Castro, btw, in a speech to a youth conference in Cuba last summer
>went on and on, as I saw in a Trotskyite magazine, about how hot
>the climate was getting, couldnt't the participants notice that
>already etc etc. He really showed himself as that lackey of some
>very big imperialist forces which, in important respects, he's
>been for a long time. (NB That does *not* mean that the US imperialist
>blockade against and other aggressive actions against Cuba perhaps
>should be accepted!)

So Washington's 30-year war against the Cuban revolution is another one of
these very subtle hoaxes, when Fidel's really been a dupe of the
bourgeoisie all along?

So the fight by Westinghouse and Babcock & Wilcox to continue selling nuke
plants was another one of these subtle hoaxes, when in fact it was the
tree-huggers who were really the true agents of the bourgeoisie all along?
Did a stiff wind from Chernobyl make its way to Sweden and destroy a lobe
of your brain?

Doug

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