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By LL (registered) - website | Posted October 22, 2009 at 23:04:29

I will be supporting this action. I hope it goes well and that the green movement gets a lot of good info out there to people.

But I have very little hope in the Copenhagen talks. You have to look realistically at who has the power. Climate change talks will prove successful if the ruling class decides green tech can spark a fresh cycle of profit and accumulation. The working classes will support it if it can create green jobs and clean, healthy communities.

From what I can glean from the papers and the radio, my impression is that large sectors of the European ruling classes see opportunity in a green tech revolution. In fact, it's well under way in Germany and Scandinavia. The Economist magazine definitely supports climate progress.

But the dominant sectors of the US ruling class consists of the military-industrial-petroleum-prison complex, which British finance is very bound up in. Canada and Australia are hopelessly bound up in the mentality of resource extraction. So the dominant sectors of most of the English speaking world stand to have some of their assets devalued by this change.

But even the talks produce major green-tech innovation and wise tax policy the world over, and profits start flowing from green tech, capitalism will eventually increase its eco-footprint and GHG emmissions. No matter how efficient, the economy can't grow forever. That's why an ecologically sustainable society has to be a planned economy. We anarchists propose a decentralized planned economy with participatory democracy for decision making.

LL believes that the problems of the city reflect deeper social contradictions

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