Saturday, June 10, 2017

     EVERYONE  AT  DISSENT  AGREES THE DEBATE IS OVER

Neoliberals 
Use Tradesmens Entrance
While  the  common denominator  of all  IPCC worst case projections is that the model outputs take  decades  to  go  visibly  exponential , and centuries  to  bend  skyward  towards the  truly catastrophic,  it took Dr. Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene  and  Contributing  Editor  at  Dissent,  less  than 100  linear hours  of  post-Paris  Trump Time  to  go  ballistic  in  that famous journal of the Left :

Paris can’t carry the weight of Trumpist outrage—or progressive optimism. The accords were unenforceable by design, a cobbled-together set of national aspirations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by enough to slow global warming (but not, in the best of scenarios, avoid major climate disruptions). The United States, even under Obama, was the reason for the weakness of Paris: anything stronger, with actual obligations, would have required Senate approval. The Senate would have killed it. So Paris was, basically, a hope-chest of good intentions, an optimistic gloss on business as usual... 
The major hazard of mainstream outrage about Trump is the tendency to overestimate how much of his catastrophic administration is unique to him, and so to exaggerate how close the country was to doing the right thing before he took power. The best potential of the same outrage is that it might alert people to how bad things are, and to how much has to happen to change them. 
...we need politics at many scales and in many forms, advancing both a widespread sense of urgency and a vital program for a green world that is egalitarian, democratic, and finds a way to make human and natural flourishing compatible. One barrier to that politics is any notion that we are not in an emergency,