From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 01:07:29 MDT
Spike writes (as though he didn't really have any idea)
> Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> >... In contrast, said Prof Stott, severe famines and economic collapse
> > followed the onset of the Little Ice Age around 1300. He said: "When the
> > temperature started to drop, harvests failed and England's vine industry
> > died. It makes one wonder why there is so much fear of warmth."...
>
> Spud this is something that has puzzled me. Why is there
> fear of warmth? Is it the images of flooded coastline
> from melting icecaps? Is there genuine concern that
> mankind couldn't deal with a rising sea, given
> hundreds or thousands of years notice? Or is there
> something else Im not seeing?
Okay, thanks for the soft toss: here it goes. The whole point
was never any particular harm that would come from global
warming, or nuclear energy, or oil seepage, etc., but rather
from the need for CRISIS, any crisis. The existence of perceived
crisis is the fastest way to revolutionarily insist that power be
concentrated at the highest levels (namely authoritarian govern-
ment's), so that radical action could be undertaken by government
in the name of the people against all the perceived threats (big
corporations, traditional values, capitalism, etc.)
That's all it is. As global warming is perceived to be a boon
rather than catastrophe, the squawking and crisis-mongering
will merely turn to something else. (Following the collapse
of the Soviet Union, one heard very little about American
Imperialism, but with the post 9-11 determination to forestall
further attack, it's easy to see that the shrill voices will
revert to that old theme.)
Remember: *every* perceived crisis can be used as a tool against
capitalism, the free market, and the hegemony of the West by its
enemies.
Lee
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