MurkyView has a positive post regarding the electoral prospects and value of the Green Party. I am not so sanguine, as can I have discussed before. In sum, I think that an environmental platform is impossible with a commitment to economic justice. Some people think that they can be decoupled, but they cannot.
Economic and social justice may not lead to environmental remediation. I know this. But environmental remediation has an insurmountable obstacle to overcome one wants it to occur without economic and social justice. The latter two are necessary conditions for the former. Anyone who watched some of the fights over logging in BC can see this obvious truth.
In my view, they are all inter-related. I think progressive economics will have to include analyses of social and environmental capital. While the environment should not be put ahead of social and economic justice issues, it is necessary to acknowledge that it is implicated in these.
Posted by: Polly Jones | December 02, 2005 at 06:49 PM