[Marxism] Climate Change: World War III by another name?

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As long ago as the  1970s US and European policy makers were aware of the 
fact that if they were to  hold onto their ill-gotten gains something would 
have 
to be done about the  billions of have-nots who sat on top of resources that â
rightfullyâ belonged to  the West.  
ââThere  are only two possible ways in which a world of 10 billion people 
can be  averted. Either the current birth rates must come down more quickly. Or 
the  current death rates must go up. âThere is no other way. âThere are, of 
course,  many ways in which the death rates can go up. In a thermonuclear age, 
war can  accomplish it very quickly and decisively. Famine and disease are 
natureâs  ancient checks on population growth, and neither one has 
disappeared 
from the  sceneâ. âTo put it simply: Excessive population growth is the 
greatest single  obstacle to the economic and social advancement of most of the 
societies in  the developing world.â â Robert McNamara, Oct. 2,  1979
Precisely! The  death rates have to go up and what better way to achieve it 
than to let ânatureâ  do it for them. It is inconceivable to think that the 
ruling elites of our  planetâs most powerful states have not been aware of 
the 
disastrous impact of  rampant (and mostly useless) production on the planetâs 
biosphere, regardless of  their public pronouncements. 
I have said this  before and Iâll say it again, the major reason the most 
powerful states will not  take meaningful action to halt the slide is because 
they realize that  climate change is the equivalent to WWIII. What better way 
to 
destroy  assets than let âNatureâ do it for them? AprÃs la deluge, they 
figure,  they will be able to pick up the pieces, the planet âcleansedâ of 
the â
surplusâ  (to capitalism) population and unable to resist the ongoing theft 
of 
their  resources.  
Extreme you might  say, but is it any more extreme than the death and 
destruction wrought on the  populations of the poor countries of the world over 
the 
centuries? 
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