Showing posts with label Disaster Capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disaster Capitalism. Show all posts
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Republican David Stockman on Crony Capitalism. By Geniusofdespair
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Bill Moyers explores the tight connection between Wall Street and the White House with David Stockman, former budget director for President Reagan.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Dumb and dumberer: is my neighborhood on fire from global warming, by gimleteye
"Is this it?", "Is this it?": why do Americans insist on scientific certainty with respect to global warming and its impacts, yet we are willing to suspend belief and embrace an trillion dollar war in Iraq?
Why do we need proof before we will sacrifice consumption habits yet embrace the flimsiest of political arguments in respect to committing the lives of other peoples' children in Iraq.
The West is burning and gripped in a historic drought. The same is true of the Southeast. Is the plan to let the American West burn and wait for sea level rise to manifest, before accepting mandates to change patterns of consumption?
For decades, environmentalists were derided by the economic elite as "Chicken Littles". The mainstream media, concentrated within corporate ownership, refused to acknowledge any claims by the public interest against the growth machine.
During that time, US coastal bays and estuaries turned to goopy muck.
Yesterday, it was 80 degrees (F) in northern Maine, in late October. The Western snowpack is going the way of glaciers. As the New York Times Sunday Magazine pointedly asked, "Is our future drying up?"
We don't protect the environment for the sake of owls, fish, manatees--no matter what the Right says. We protect them because sustainability means we don't have to risk the unquantifiable.
A capitalist economy depends on transparency in the matter of assessing risk and reward. What America has evolved into is something else entirely: markets are opaque and people are fearful. It is called disaster capitalism.
Why do we need proof before we will sacrifice consumption habits yet embrace the flimsiest of political arguments in respect to committing the lives of other peoples' children in Iraq.
The West is burning and gripped in a historic drought. The same is true of the Southeast. Is the plan to let the American West burn and wait for sea level rise to manifest, before accepting mandates to change patterns of consumption?
For decades, environmentalists were derided by the economic elite as "Chicken Littles". The mainstream media, concentrated within corporate ownership, refused to acknowledge any claims by the public interest against the growth machine.
During that time, US coastal bays and estuaries turned to goopy muck.
Yesterday, it was 80 degrees (F) in northern Maine, in late October. The Western snowpack is going the way of glaciers. As the New York Times Sunday Magazine pointedly asked, "Is our future drying up?"
We don't protect the environment for the sake of owls, fish, manatees--no matter what the Right says. We protect them because sustainability means we don't have to risk the unquantifiable.
A capitalist economy depends on transparency in the matter of assessing risk and reward. What America has evolved into is something else entirely: markets are opaque and people are fearful. It is called disaster capitalism.
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