Ecosocialism: One Man’s Vision for a Green Economy

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from truthdig:


Ecosocialism: One Man’s Vision for a Green Economy

Posted on Mar 13, 2013
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law


At the recent Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C., some 45,000 people brandished picket signs with logos modeled after the one President Obama used in his campaign. It was a display meant to reassure Obama that the environmental movement in the United States has not broken its allegiance to his presidency.

The Feb. 17 march was an expectant and hopeful plea, even a celebration, because many in attendance trust that Obama will do the right thing. The crowd’s confidence that day culminated in an ebullient dance party, with many smiling and flailing their bodies on cue when the song from the Internet’s viral Harlem Shake videos dropped.

The night before, a group of about 60 activists gathered in the basement of the All Souls Church in the D.C. neighborhood of Columbia Heights. They were there to address the bigger picture and the construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. They were sullen and did not share the enthusiasm of the next day’s protesters.

Writer and activist Chris Williams, former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Solidarity Saturday student activist Nick Davenport belied the general optimism in a panel discussion titled “Capitalism Is Killing the Planet: How Can We Fight Back?” ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/ecosocialism_one_mans_vision_for_a_green_economy_20130313/

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1. I'm not sure if I understood this correctly,but does this mean that the linear system is commodities

based... Something like Romney's company where they just go in and harvest everything like locusts? It sounds that way to me....

“It’s a linear system,” panel participant Chris Williams, author of “Ecology and Socialism,” said about capitalism. “Inputs go in at one end—which would be natural resources, energy and human labor—and then out of the other end come commodities and waste ... the opposite of how nature and ecosystems work.”