Hot Air Over Climate Change--Business as Usual

Guess who is not sitting at the Climate Change Conference table in Montreal? Those most impacted by the decisions of course. In this case first nations peoples of the Arctic North like the Inuit. Inuits Transformed by Global Warming

Guess who is sitting at the table?

Why the corporate bosses of the petroleum industry. Regional, not global, carbon cuts most likely - BP Like the President/CEO of British Petroleum, now branded BP with groovey TV ads about being environmentally aware. And prepared to profit from new technologies and alternative energy. BP to build world's biggest alternative power business

And of course politicians who have failed to either accept Kyoto or have like Canada's Liberals failed to fulfill their Kyoto commitments.Political turmoil on eve of Canada's climate forum / Host country struggles to meet Kyoto pledge

Not that that Kyoto was anything but a sop for capitalism anyways. It was all about making Capitalism Green. Alcan funds planting of 100,000 trees in project to keep Montreal Climate Change Conference carbon neutral Carbon sinks and carbon credits, exchanges of credits between polluting industries and countries with trees. Greenpeace says rich countries export climate change But Kyoto and this conference, dubbed Kyoto2, will NOT change anything because frankly Capitalism Is NOT Sustainable.

And hey I am not the only on to say that the Montreal Conference will do little to change capitalism. So does the influential Policy Think Tank of the Executive branch of Capitalism, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the United States. And they set the agenda for the most powerful capitalist country in the world.

David G. Victor, a Council adjunct senior fellow for science and technology and director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, spoke to cfr.org's Esther Pan on November 23 about what to expect from the Montreal Conference.

What you expect to come out of the climate change conference in Montreal?

Mostly nothing.

And until the fact that climate change is the direct result of capitalism is realized the protestors who want something done about climate change will be gain nothing but more hot air from Conferences like those in Montreal. The protocols will be all about alternatives to keep capitalism functoning with business as usual, CLIMATE CHANGE: Blair Hopes for New Nuclear Programme

While the very real impact of capitalism on climate change continues on an expotential curve that increases its impact on our lives every day.

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Capitalism is in a period of what the communist left calls decadence or as economist Joseph Shumpeter joyfully called it Creative Destruction.

"Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can." Thus opens Schumpeter's prologue to a section of his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. One might think, on the basis of the quote, that Schumpeter was a Marxist. But the analysis that led Schumpeter to his conclusion differed totally from Karl Marx's. Schumpeter believed that capitalism would be destroyed by its successes.Innovation by the entrepreneur, argued Schumpeter, led to gales of "creative destruction" as innovations caused old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question, as Schumpeter saw it, was not "how capitalism administers existing structures,... [but] how it creates and destroys them." This creative destruction, he believed, caused continuous progress and improved standards of living for everyone.

That means that as we produce more and more goods, and expand the technological capablities of society we also end up destroying more of our world not to improve the living standards for everyone, but for the few in the industrialized nations. And while capitalisms ability to create a technology of rational distributive good its fails to do so because it is dominated by the need to make profits. Where Schumpeter left his analysis the decadence theory of capitalism picks up and says that the contradiction as Marx points out is that advanced capitalism actually holds back technological or other creative solutions to problems, like Climate Change, because it needs to make a profit whether it be through mass layoffs, wars, famines, or environmental destruction. So while it is creative it is ultimately destructive, a suicidal system.This is the reality of Creative Destruction or the decadence of Capitalism. And it is having a world wide impact. Focus: So, are we going to freeze or fry?

The real domination of capital, technology-driven mass production, became prevalent only in the 20^th century (and continues its development to this day). The moment at which the progress of real domination fundamentally changed the conditions of accumulation for global capital is hard to pinpoint. But it is certain that such a change took place, whichever term is used to describe it, that massive devalorization became an intrinsic part of the accumulation process, that therefore the continuation of capitalism imposed on society increasingly brutal violence and self-destruction and thus placed before the working class the need to fight, not to improve its conditions of exploitation within capitalism, but to overthrow it. That’s why we consider 1914 as the starting date of capitalist decadence. In the remaining part of the century, war would make more casualties than in the entire preceding human history. It is true that amidst this endemic destruction, capitalism continued to develop and to grow, that real domination continued to deepen and spread, and that the resulting technification continued to stimulate productivity and thus also the quantity and quality of use-values, even for the working class. Those who think that the conditions for revolution require the irreversible stagnation of capitalism and abject poverty for the vast majority of the working class will wait forever. They have not understood that an irreversibly stagnating capitalism is an oxymoron, that crisis and productivity growth do not exclude each other, that capital seeks higher productivity to fight its crisis, yet worsens it this way, that the struggle of the working class is not one of variable capital reacting only against its own demobilization but of the part of humanity which, because of its place in the production process, is most capable both of recognizing the mortal danger that capitalism represents for humanity and of eliminating it.
THE GENESIS OF CAPITALIST DECADENCE