Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance

“People are reluctant to take great leaps of faith and that is the only thing we at the moment offer. Our word against the “experts”.

Our case has not been corroborated by the science community. And I doubt it ever will be since who pays the piper calls the tune and we do not finance our own technical research institutes or have PhD students to concentrate on the issue.”

By unmasking the ideology of ‘clean coal’ and the carbon credit- or climate denial, we can shine a spotlight on the capital, and the apex powers, system and point to the socialist mode. So researchers (socialist centred) are thin, but they are there- and the current reports can be used within a socialist narrative. A meta analysis is possible of any data, according to the right research question. The science is there but we need to leap to that faith, in the socialist imaginary.

What kind of questions: socialism does not produce rampant waste/ but capital oversupply does?

Maybe I am naive- but locating the experience effects or peoples lived experience of climate change is crucial.

I started working on a vineyard with a friend, producing pinot noir- the first advice from other workers was “in 5 years time we may not be able to grow it here- the summers have become too hot”. Local producers are aware of the environment, and of climate change- and their concerns are dismissed. They are told by the advisor state boards to adapt, grow something else more ‘sustainable’ and amenable to the market.  Right there is conscious awakening- capital will not respond, but adapt, letting others simply ‘go to the wall’-

There has to be a way to connect the data (not the tune) to socialist modes of production- I cannot believe any major research has not been made available- most of it focuses on the impact to the economy… A market eye produces market concerns- it is time for the socialist eye, and a call out for socialist research into productive modes and the environment…

Be kind to you,

L.B