The Consequences on the Environment of Methods of ProductionThe refusal to take into account the consequences on the natural environment of methods of production arises from an economic system and ruling elite that are narrowly focussed on their own private gain in competition with one another for dominance instead of cooperating for the common good of the people, the socialized economy, the social and natural environment, and society.
U.S. President Bill Clinton's Vice-President Al Gore became a green promoter and with his social and political connections and through state financed pay-the-rich subsidies for the green companies he owns became a billionaire. The oligarchs demand that any measures to mitigate global warming must lead to private profits for a privileged few and no loss of their control. The desire and motivation for individual wealth and privilege exist within an atmosphere of extreme competition amongst themselves. The ruling elite divide into warring camps and oligopolies according to their private interests, which they politicize through control of the state machinery, mass media and cartel electoral parties. Those cartel political parties likewise divide themselves according to the oligarchs they serve and their private interests. The oligarchs argue and fight over how to pass the burden of problems onto the backs of the working people in ways that favour their own narrow private interests. They strive to control the purse strings and power of the state and put them at the disposal of whatever private interests they have pledged themselves to in return for getting elected. When a problem such as global warming becomes too big to ignore then they engage in political posturing to influence the people and force them to line up in ways that favour their private interests. The posturing and policy objectives change with the wind for the desire is to serve private interests, not to serve the people and society as a principle by upholding social responsibility.
Imperialist mantra asserts a boundary that the representatives of the financial oligarchy in government and in opposition cannot cross. Dealing with global warming in words is fine as long as deeds do not run afoul of and interfere with the motive of making maximum private profit. No official imperialist politician can even raise the issue that measures in the economy's production and distribution process should take place that directly turn around the problem of climate change, and that a portion of the added-value workers produce should go towards this cause to humanize the environment rather than into the pockets of the rich. This would entail taking charge of private companies and depriving those in control of engaging in damaging practices. It would mean seeing how the problem poses itself with objectivity of consideration not with subjective consideration of whether such measures would harm the profits the privileged few expropriate from the working class. The Trudeau carbon sales tax is tied to the overall issue of taxation and its use to perpetuate the class privilege and control of the financial oligarchy. The tax adds one more burden on working people. Worker politicians demand the elimination of all forms of individual taxation and assert that real social and economic problems need real solutions not cynical political posturing. They declare openly that problems in the economy such as its contribution to global warming must be resolved through changes to the economy and social conditions through upholding social responsibility and consciousness that deprive the financial oligarchy of its power and control.
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The motive of the ruling
oligarchs for maximum private profit
to benefit their empires in competition with others and in
contradiction with the working people whom they exploit, rejects
any interference in the pursuit of private profit. The
imperialist economic system, which the financial oligarchy
control, operates in the absence of social responsibility. It
cannot and does not function without a privileged few stealing
the natural resources for themselves and expropriating the value
the working people produce regardless of the social consequences,
such as economic and natural crises and war.
For example, former
Conservative Prime Minister Harper
introduced cap-and-trade of carbon derivatives as a way for
certain oligarchs to profit. The former Ontario Liberal
government did the same in cooperation with Quebec and California
carbon exchanges. But now the Ford Conservative Ontario Premier,
a professed admirer of both Harper and Scheer, denounces
cap-and-trade and carbon taxes as restrictions on his control of
Ontario's economy.