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May 7, 2019
Would Green Socialism Shut Down e-Commerce?
By William R. Hawkins
A few weeks ago a long essay appeared in The New Republic by staff writer by Emily Atkin titled "Breaking up Amazon Won’t Solve Its Climate Problem: The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so again -- whether it wants to or not" that displayed the Green Left's leanings toward totalitarianism. It isn't just Amazon's way of doing business they want to change, but the behavior of its customers, who will also have to change the way they purchase merchandise whether they want to or not.
Atkin wants to move beyond "The idea of breaking up Silicon Valley’s giants -- Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple -- [which] has become conventional wisdom on the left wing of the Democratic Party" because simply dividing up their work will not reduce their work in the aggregate; and it is the work that poses a threat to the planet. MORE.............
Would Green Socialism Shut Down e-Commerce?
By William R. Hawkins
A few weeks ago a long essay appeared in The New Republic by staff writer by Emily Atkin titled "Breaking up Amazon Won’t Solve Its Climate Problem: The tech giant changed how Americans buy stuff. It will have to do so again -- whether it wants to or not" that displayed the Green Left's leanings toward totalitarianism. It isn't just Amazon's way of doing business they want to change, but the behavior of its customers, who will also have to change the way they purchase merchandise whether they want to or not.
Atkin wants to move beyond "The idea of breaking up Silicon Valley’s giants -- Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple -- [which] has become conventional wisdom on the left wing of the Democratic Party" because simply dividing up their work will not reduce their work in the aggregate; and it is the work that poses a threat to the planet. MORE.............
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When I'm confronted by people who are sincerely concerned about climate change, and suggest such policies... I tend to ask them when they plan to move out into the woods, live off the land, and become totally self-reliant. When they look at me funny, I explain that while I myself "like" the idea of a less "consumerist" economy... in some aspects... we're well beyond the cultural, and even physical ability to do it. With billions living in urban centers, diseases and contamination ravaging natural sources of protein, and large swaths of still "wild" lands being tightly controlled by public and private ownership... being unable to order the latest tech from an online distributor might be the least of our worries. I don't expect anything so radical as the "Green New Deal" will ever make it off the desk... but if it did, we'd probably be looking at a second Dark Age.
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