Below is my latest email (slightly edited) to a few friends and family.
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If anyone has the time or interest, & it takes very little time, read the Conclusion (starting on pg 86) of this 2016 scholarly Thesis. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/54848306.pdf
It provides evidence of how neoliberalism essentially has (over decades) squashed the environmental movement relative to protection of our habitat.
That has been accomplished via 3 avenues: legislation (interpreted to include Free Trade Agreements enforced by private "courts" via the WTO), assimilation (corporations partnering with NGOs & gov'ts, corps determining policy, etc.), and financial coercion (through debt via mega banks, the IMF, & the World Bank). It has been an assault on not only the enviro movement, but also on any social movement which opposes neoliberal policies. Those policies include worldwide privatization, deregulation, liberalization of Finance (without adequate oversight), austerity for commoners, and mega corporate hegemony in general.
This is one of several scholarly papers which tend to support my contention that neoliberals now rule society with the aid of their political puppets... regardless of Party.
Most of the "Green" talk by the Establishment in DC today is all in the framework of neoliberal philosophy & neoliberal economics. It's an oxymoron. It's window dressing. It's tinkering around the edges of the Crisis.
When the political Establishment talks about "following the science", they mean the medical science. They don't pay much attention at all to the science of ecology. That lack on their part might be the 1st step on the path to eventual human extinction. That's entirely within the realm of possibility. To avoid it, we need a paradigm shift in ethics & our worldview.
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Not only my opinion.
