Re: Canning Town is not "London's notoriously tough East End" Archived Message
Posted by Willem on October 24, 2019, 2:49 pm, in reply to "Canning Town is not "London's notoriously tough East End""
But Sue, even if the world somehow miraculously managed to redistribute the wealth to all, with people having rewarding jobs, good health provision etc., it wouldn't count for anything unless we curb our emissions severely. We need a form of austerity -- not the neo-liberal type -- but of our fossil fuel usage if we want any chance of avoiding 4,5,6 degrees of warming. Or as DTJ used to say, we need to be on a war-footing. This is why I made the point that it relies on people realizing that we are in an extreme emergency. If our predicament is not regarded as an emergency, such policies will inevitably be regarded as an attack on the masses. Of course, we may already be too late.
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