CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #91, SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Grace Blakeley. “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.”
Alberto
Garzón Espinosa. “The Limits to
Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism.”
Drew Costley and
Matthew Brown. “Study says carbon’s costs undercounted”
Humans and Nature under Capitalism
Grace Blakeley. “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.” Mronline.org (posted
May 12).
Grace talks to John Bellamy Foster,
professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. They discuss Marx's
theory of nature and the relationship between humanity and nature under
capitalism. (For the interview, click
the title. See Sparrow, Crimes Against Nature.)
WHEN DID WE KNOW? (that the house was on fire)
Alberto
Garzón Espinosa. “The Limits to
Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism.” (Jul 01, 2022)
is an economist, leader of United Left Party (Spain), and minister of consumer affairs in the Spanish government.
This article is part of a project
of the Party of the European Left. It is adapted from an article by the same title published
on April 20, 2022 by LaU:
Revista de Cultura y Pensamiento.
It has now been fifty
years since the scientist Donella Meadows led the publication of a report
titled The Limits to Growth, which aimed to analyze
the physical impacts of economic growth patterns on the planet. A computer
model was used for the assessment, which looked at, among other things, the
effect of economic exploitation on soils, the exhaustion of non-renewable
resources such as minerals, and the resulting climate distortions. Various
scenarios were put forward, the worst case being that, if no action were taken
to correct the trajectory being followed at the time, industrial society would
collapse in the mid–twenty-first century.
The report became an international reference point and
highlighted the ecological consequences of the dynamics of growth that, until
then, had been seen as positive. The scientific team’s model, together with its
findings, was nevertheless fiercely contested by economists.1 (continued)
https://monthlyreview.org/2022/07/01/the-limits-to-growth-ecosocialism-or-barbarism/
REALITY ALERT: CARBON COSTS UNDERCOUNTED.
Drew Costley and Matthew Brown. “Study says carbon’s costs undercounted .’ Damage
at 3.6 times U.S.’ standard.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Sept. 02,
2022). Read more... https://ao.pressreader.com/article/282892324477071 Forwarded
by Pat Snyder.
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