Randall Carlson

[Magda Hassan]

Well, there is a lot to be said in response to these three posts so I will have a stab at it. I am, of course, not a climate scientist, but I am certainly equipped to spot logical fallacies and dubious assumptions.

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Re: Magda's picture: the simple response is to ask why the ruling class should be trusted to implement any of those things in the interest of the people. Where is the historical evidence for that being a valid assumption? Why is scepticism about the intentions of Gates, Rockefeller etc. suspended over this issue alone?

The ruling class will never do anything that is not also in their interest. If the people can benefit from it as well, well all and good. But they wont do it because it is the right thing to do or because it will benefit the most people. Their class interests dictate that they will always put their interests first. Sometime our interests overlap. Survival being one. So they wont do it for us but they will do it for themselves. And in this case we can push for our mutual interests. The business of renewables is another. A better business model and new opportunities for some cappos than old fossil fuel cappos still holding on to their fading privileges and it gets the ruling class fighting against each other and not us for a change. We can support the progressive change and if the circumstances are right the change can even be pushed dialectically to something completely new and revolutionary.