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Shortness of life. Vastness of time before and after. Fragility of matter.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Solar radiation management would in no way eliminate nature, only raise the stakes in a society that seeks to overmaster it. And onwards the history of capital goes, from one combination to the next, the perils mounting along the curve and, with Benjamin, the debris growing ‘towards the sky. What we call progress is this storm.’
The Progress of This Storm
Andreas Malm
To face the growing public finance crisis, noted one political scientist in the late 1970s, ‘governments have increasingly relied for financing on private financial markets’. Now you have to understand, he warned, that this ‘dependence of governments on private financial markets – which is to a great extent the result of increases in oil prices – creates additional pressures for conservative economic policies that are deferential to the interests of capital. It becomes more difficult to follow egalitarian polices of income distribution’. This was another form of limitation of government policy, doubtless more effective than all those we have discussed so far.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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