RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

> The worst case scenario involves fascism, which would
> probably be called
> something else while being very different from the fascism of
> the 1930s &
> 1940s. (I can imagine that a big environmental crisis would
> encourage the
> worst of authoritarianisms.)
> =============
> Not that we're at worse case scenario by any means but we
> *do* have a *very big* environmental
> crisis

but except for the world's poor, the crisis hasn't really hit home yet.

> and the authoritarianism that's seriously impeding our
> efforts to adapt to the planetary
> ecologies is called actually existing capitalism with it's
> neo-mandarins in denial of everything
> thoughtful ecologists and other scientists are telling us.

the current kind of authoritarianism is actually making matters worse. I was
talking about the kind that would be a reaction when the environmental
crisis actually hits capitalists below the belt, hurting profitability.
Jim