If capitalism doesn’t end climate change, climate change will end capitalism - Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth - True/Slant

Flocks of environmentalists and economists will alight in Vancouver this evening for a weekend of striving toward a more sensible capitalism.

The De-Growth conference hopes to achieve a “viable economic, social and ecological system” that’s kinder to both workers and to the earth, but these are no Molotov-hurling Bolsheviks. They’re just looking for sustainable capitalism.

That means shrinking the economies of the developed world. Which will be hard to do.
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Treehuggers and eggheads aren’t going to shrink the world economy from the Vancouver Library. Likewise, no raggle taggle mass of protesters is going to overthrow capitalism by rallying in Copenhagen, especially when they identify themselves largely through commodity preferences–hemp clothes, folk music, natural toothpaste. No army will do it either, if the massive red armies of the Soviet Union and China failed.

But the earth can do it. The earth can do it by creating conditions warm enough to disrupt markets. And look: she’s on the march.

Ezra Klein - Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'I care equally about immigration and climate change'

EK: So what you need isn't just an assurance on immigration. It's an assurance that if you're going to do the dangerous things on climate reform, you won't be hung out to dry on it.

LG: Right. Ask yourself: Why did they leak the story to Fox News? That told me they weren't committed to this issue. Why let a story start on a venue that would hurt your partner the most?