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  doug commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Is Show Over for 'Eco-terror' Security Theatre?

  I don't think democracy necessarily causes climate change.  In the U.S. it does, however, create a situation where the primary function of government is to foster and promote corporate capitalism.  This is a result of the constitutional interpretation of individaul liberty to mean rights for corporations.  On a more basic level it has to do with who/what has the power.  And it ain't the government!  Democracy, in theory at least, allows for public input into government and the rights of the "people" (plural, not an individual).  The people in our case being the middle class. In Marxist terms the middle class refers to the bourgeoise or the capitalists.  
  I do like the prof's suggestion that the corporations and by association the government are the one's committing violence against the natural world.  Therefore they are the eco-terrorists!  As long as the government is run by and for the corporations and not by and for the (capital-P) People, the continuous cycle of ecological terrorism and destruction will continue on.  That being said, I don't think the idea of social/ecological democracy is irreconcilable with democratic theory.