tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171119669988158355.post3830193386178585347..comments2023-11-18T05:53:43.983-06:00Comments on ecosocialism canada: Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam ChomskyNext Year Countryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057931166900219143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171119669988158355.post-87698975850981610682011-01-20T11:07:21.632-06:002011-01-20T11:07:21.632-06:00Other Options,
Start on manned missions to Mars t...Other Options,<br /><br />Start on manned missions to Mars to build colony there in case of something seriously going wrong with the Earth's ecosystem, and in the meantime continue the search for another Earth in the Universe. <br /><br />Accept an Agnostic Environmentalism that says man should value life, any life, over death and this false idol obsession with a God of the afterlife that goes on in the name of religion is a contradiction with life in our ecosystem. People's false conclusion that what we do now on this planet will be answered for in an afterlife has fostered a mentality of disinterestedness in having solutions provided for the things going wrong around us. Also religion teaches that the Earth is here for the taking along with all the animals on it, and perhaps this outlook may signal its own demise by being so utterly wrong. You should feel somewhat assured that life will continue if people don't learn to appreciate how it works then they will go extinct. Be confident in knowing that a beetle or cockroach may continue to keep on truckin' well after humans have destroyed the air for themselves by their mode of transportation by truck and other wasteful fossil fuels.<br /><br />Stop committing your thoughtcrimes against the state and perhaps things won't be so bad. You knew all along that two plus two made five, you just need a little convincing.Max Horkheimer Resurrectednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171119669988158355.post-47193686724804541762011-01-19T10:44:02.630-06:002011-01-19T10:44:02.630-06:00Mickey Z. is disappointed in Chomsky because the l...Mickey Z. is disappointed in Chomsky because the latter resists buying into his "solution" of massive individual lifestyle change.<br /><br />Chomsky wants to see radical changes in the way technology is used, while MZ simply sees technology as the problem and imagines some kind of de-growth scenario instead. What remains unacknowledged in the interview, of course, is that neither scenario is possible within a capitalist economy.Jeff Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05425118662923830304noreply@blogger.com