[Peace-discuss] The ecological rift and Capitalism

[Brussel, Morton K]

Recommended:  https://truthout.org/articles/a-green-new-deal-is-the-first-step-toward-an-eco-revolution/

I think that this is an important and compelling short analysis by John Bellamy Foster, although it leaves out one important promising technological component, namely nuclear energy, which, indeed, is “green energy”. It has largely been ignored øn the basis of its currently uneconomical cost compared not only to fossil fuels but to other “renewable" energies as well. Also, Foster ignores  necessary(?) uses of fossil fuels which are unrelated to transportation and power and heat sources. For example, can society make plastics and other chemical products from sources other than fossil fuels— “efficiently”?

This article should also be considered by science and engineering entities, not to say political science, economics and business departments and organizations.

Of course, one has to accept the premise that global warming/climate change is an existential and near term danger to humanity in reading this article

—mkb
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