Disaster socialism?

The Greens’ Attack on Mariculture

Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism documented effective and widespread use of economic disaster by neoliberals to undo socialist and progressive achievements and impose severe free market measures.

It is a strategy that has served the right well in the US and Europe since the plutocracy precipitated the crash of 2008.

It appears the left wing version of this sort of thing is the exploitation of the threat of environmental disaster to advance an agenda of global leveling.

One difference appears to be that no one can doubt the reality of the economic disasters the right takes advantage of.

But efforts to prolong and even worsen disasters for political gain are not a difference, since both sides do it quite shamelessly.

The right has its global project of recession-worsening austerity and the left has its deliberate obstruction of development of ways to deal with global warming that do not even pretend to require humanity forgo use of fossil fuels, as do the redistributionist treaties favored by the left.

Oh, note this article in a prestigious neocon journal expresses joy that technological advances will enable much more growth of the human population.

People used to think the Malthusian connection between increased ability to produce food and population increases to eat it all up was a bad thing.

They were right.

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