tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741861999194728080.post8459023033835545208..comments2023-10-07T12:15:50.446+01:00Comments on The Centre Left: Copenhagen countdown - staying the right side of 2ÂșCRob Marchanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11534810369839848312noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7741861999194728080.post-76864957212950078472009-12-02T01:36:27.186+00:002009-12-02T01:36:27.186+00:00Consider the impact that the threat of military in...Consider the impact that the threat of military invasion had on the country - necessarily bringing about full employment, planning for a specific goal - the result was the postwar consensus, the welfare state, and the mixed economy.<br /><br />Any concerted effort to tackle carbon emissions will result in a significant shift in economic and political power towards ordinary people as production, of food and energy, is localised. This entails replacing "free" markets with fair ones, internalising costs that were previously externalised.<br /><br />I don't know how productive civil disobedience would be in the even of failure of the talks. My motto, as ever, "don't mourn, organise."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443724356434212172noreply@blogger.com