Re: [Pen-l] Remember, the recession isn't all bad

To: Progressive Economics <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Remember, the recession isn't all bad
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:22:41 -0600

raghu wrote:
> 
> You seriously want to suggest that
> the whole world can live like this sustainably? And all this is not
> counting the hidden consumption involved in the process of making
> food, gasoline etc artificially cheap and plentiful.

Detached from a political program (and organized forces) by which this
reduction can be arranged and controlled (distributed), to call for it
is (a) mere chatter and (b)offensive moralism -- even though you are of
course correct on the technical point. 7 billion people and climbing
cannot live like that. But that point by itself is utterly empty.

Carrol

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