{"id":48921,"date":"2019-10-10T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48921"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:21:36","slug":"the-green-new-deal-and-accursed-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48921","title":{"rendered":"The Green New Deal and Accursed Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/10\/the-green-new-deal-and-accursed-wealth\/\">The Green New Deal and Accursed Wealth<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/02\/longview1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109483\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pulp mills, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Accursed Wealth! O\u2019er bounding human laws,<br>Of every evil thou remains\u2019t the cause:<br>Victims of want, those wretches such as me,<br>Too truly lay their wretchedness to thee:<br>Thou art the bar that keeps from being fed,<br>And thine our loss of labour and of bread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Gore missed this memo, written at some time between 1809 and 1813, by the poet John Clare in Norhamptonshire, England. However, in his latest op-ed,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/20\/opinion\/al-gore-climate-change.html\"><em>It\u2019s Not too Late \u2013 The climate crisis is the battle of our time and we can win<\/em><\/a>, in the New York Times, September 22, 2019, the former Vice President helpfully notes that the fastest-growing occupation in the United States is solar installer and the second fastest- growing is wind turbine service technician. The loss of Clare\u2019s world is un-remediated. The loss of our world, apparently, is salved by the growth of mostly low-wage \u2018green-tech\u2019 jobs. Clare, at least, identifies the cause of his loss \u2013 Accursed Wealth, or, as we might call it today, capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gore, in his best, ever youthful, Gee-Wiz journalese proclaims that, \u201c\u2026we are in the early stages of a sustainable revolution that will achieve the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution and the speed of the digital revolution, made possible by new digital tools\u201d. John Clare\u2019s erstwhile bucolic freedom had been proscribed by the British parliament\u2019s Enclosure Acts early in the nineteenth century, under which he lost his rights to the common lands that were seized for the benefit of proto-capitalist land-owners newly cognizant of the wealth generated by grazing sheep. Wool, like cotton, was a fiber fundamental to the modern capitalist ethos whereby the acquisition of wealth transcended the interests of both humanity and the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green New Deal and Accursed Wealth Pulp mills, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Accursed Wealth! O\u2019er bounding human laws,Of every evil thou remains\u2019t the cause:Victims of want, those wretches such as me,Too truly lay their wretchedness to thee:Thou art the bar that keeps from being fed,And thine our loss of labour and of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[111,5493,23450,18238],"class_list":["post-48921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-capitalism","tag-counterpunch","tag-green-new-deal","tag-john-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48922,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921\/revisions\/48922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}