Utah University Professor of Political Economy Minqi Li

"Well, of course, given the current situation, the world's majority of the environmental movements continue to follow the strategy to persuade the government to reform, to adopt certain measures within the capitalist system, like cap and trade, or some would propose carbon tax as an alternative. But the situation, the reality we are observing right now, is that no matter how hard we are pressing the capitalist government, no matter how hard we are pressing the corporations, the reality is that the emission keep growing each year—except for this year because of the very deep recession, but we cannot have a deep recession every year. And then the basic situation is that if these capitalist countries continue to expand their emissions, and there's no way to get out, and so I would say maybe it's time for the environmental movements to look beyond themselves and to find ways to combine their effort with the effort of the general social movement, to combine their effort with the effort of the world's great majority, the oppressed and exploited. And only with the general participation of the greater majority of the world population, then we have some hope to stop this. I know this is hard, but I don't see any other option."

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Re- Envisioning

As my first post on this wonderful blog it is appropriate that my mouth is full of cake and the sounds of sirens surround me. But before I am penalized for eating all of Brian's cake I would like to inform you about a special project Gabriel of Boomsnake and Myself of Snuffaluffagus have been working on. We have been writing a score for a photographic installation piece that will be displayed at the San Diego Arts Fair being held at the Del Mar Grande hotel september 3-5th. If you would like to come and see this work of art please contact either gabe or I via email or myspace. (aminalslp@gmail.com / myspace.com/snuffiq /myspace.com/boomsnake) and we can do our best to acquire passes for you. Their will also be a kpbs interview about the project Friday morning (8/28) @ 630 or 830 am on http://www.kpbs.org/radio/listen/ or 89.5fm

Ill keep ya posted with more snuffaluffagus info and cake in the near future

-WizardSpit

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