tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514947804232497503.post685254598549900384..comments2023-11-19T20:15:13.057-05:00Comments on Anchorhold: Breaking and EnteringDavid Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11981494782508348500noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514947804232497503.post-78082139571110958642011-10-27T22:48:27.287-04:002011-10-27T22:48:27.287-04:00I agree that the consequences of our environmental...I agree that the consequences of our environmental negligence may doom us as a dominant species, or at least vastly change the shape of the civilization we've built. But I view that failing not as foundational but as symptomatic of the effects of a system that commodifies everything and then sells our lives back to us--and that allows for ecological pillage on the scale necessary to satisfy our dependency on carbon fuels. Yeah, protest movements have come and gone often enough even within our own lifetimes. But I'm struck by how diverse this one is--by how deeply it cuts across lines of generation, ethnicity, and even class by many traditional definitions.David Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11981494782508348500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514947804232497503.post-17155044010593611342011-10-27T20:23:38.018-04:002011-10-27T20:23:38.018-04:00Thank you for posting this. I've seen so many...Thank you for posting this. I've seen so many movements either fizzle or be co-opted that I can't help feeling this will be another one. The problems that have moved them to protest are not primarily caused by the greed of capitalists but by the capitaiists', and everyone's, mistaken assumption that the supply of fossil fuel will last virtually forever. It won't. And every time we drive a car, fly in a plane, or heat our homes, we contribute to the shortage. Unless the Occupy Wall Street movement understands this, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com