KEYNESIANISM AND ECOLOGY

Randy, Warren and all-

The problem with the "optimistic scenario" of the semiperiphery moving up
in the system is that it might very well destroy the biospere.  (It may in
fact already be too late...)

If the forward momentum of economic "progress" continues, whether in its
unreformed capitalist mode, a reformed social democratic mode, or a state
socialist mode, ecological disasters are inevitable.

Our voluntarist efforts may be doomed, but if we're going to make an
effort, it had better be red/green or it ain't gonna be pretty.  (On the
bright side, it will be easier for the much smaller number of survivors to
be "reds" after a vast human die-off -- they can re-implement primitive
communism.)

RH