tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597988080513921863.post3995478847294100131..comments2024-03-15T03:20:49.376-04:00Comments on Autonomy For All: Warming WednesdayDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17355077650707854680noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597988080513921863.post-78005849443448323512011-02-16T19:45:04.956-05:002011-02-16T19:45:04.956-05:00Another argument against accepting the premises of...Another argument against accepting the premises of the conventional liberal narrative as interpreted by the now-defunct DLC. No matter what President Obama thinks, he won't get us where we need to go by being a nicer Ronald Reagan. Have we really forgotten that GWB promised us exactly that: compassionate conservatism?<br /><br />Exchanging one cynical marketing slogan for another may serve our Presdent's purposes; there's no way that it serves ours.William Timbermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06465283842365282278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597988080513921863.post-40618984934849029982011-02-16T18:24:09.763-05:002011-02-16T18:24:09.763-05:00Yeah, the phrase "greatest market failure in ...Yeah, the phrase "greatest market failure in history" definitely comes to mind. Another win for neoliberalism.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17355077650707854680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-597988080513921863.post-86688150899256897582011-02-16T10:30:02.244-05:002011-02-16T10:30:02.244-05:00It strikes me part of why we can't traction on...It strikes me part of why we can't traction on this issue is that we often try to advance it within the dominant narrative rather than as part of a challenge. Sure, normally we would let the market decide, and government regulation would be bad, but we've got this crisis - the normal rules don't apply. We don't say that exactly, but I think it is often implicit.<br /><br />Better to say - we should organize our society and economy in order to serve human needs. That means protecting us from climate change as well as from the predations of the oil / gas / coal / etc. companies and from the dangers of pollution and massive oil spills and from the costs (financial and otherwise) of an interventionist stance in the Middle East that comes with all this. Talk of markets when we are dealing with cartels, or lock-in (e.g. no one asked me if I preferred to buy energy from wind or solar) is incoherent.David Kaibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00242081942930386460noreply@blogger.com