°Greencollaring and the biblebelt-tightening
Obama (November 22, 2008):
We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building windfarms and solar panels, fuel-efficient cars, and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil, and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.
From James Woudhuysen’s “Act Macro: Technological Alternatives to Green Austerity”:
[…] Since the end of the Cold War and 9-11, the capitalists have lost their nerve. But that’s their problem, not ours. Mao Tse Tung’s dumbed down slogan, ‘Serve the people’ has been transformed into ‘Slave for the planet’ – walk everywhere, consume less, don’t overpopulate the land, reduce your footprint, bend over and grow your own food. Everywhere in energy innovation there is minimal impact and maximum regulation. […]
Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadakis, “20 Theses against green capitalism”
“Towards a New Green Deal: Economic Stimulus and Policy Action For the Double Crunch”, Joint Statement by the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Council of Social Services, Australian Green Infrastructure Council, The Climate Institute, Australian Institute Superannuation Trustees, and Property Council of Australia. [pdf]
Ann Pettifor, one of the authors of the Green New Deal and from the New Economics Foundation, on the sinfulness of usury. (And, of course, Catch the Fire Ministries’s Danny Nalliah on the fires in Victoria.)
