Comments on: The Silence of Collapse http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:42:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: rick mervis http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27977 rick mervis Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:17:53 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27977 Rachel, An excellent story which I am printing and stowing away for my two small children to read when they're grown. They're just 8, and imagine the straits California will be in in the year 2025, when they're twenty-five! One can only hope that a smarter generation will turn things around. Rachel,
An excellent story which I am printing and stowing away for my two small children to read when they’re grown. They’re just 8, and imagine the straits California will be in in the year 2025, when they’re twenty-five!
One can only hope that a smarter generation will turn things around.

]]> By: Andrew Filis http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27754 Andrew Filis Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:25:04 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27754 Rachel, Many thanks for making such a complex issue accessible. Once more, cogent poof that fabianist approaches are mere 'deck-chair rearranging' and that Capitalism needs to be confronted head-on. Andrew Rachel,

Many thanks for making such a complex issue accessible. Once more, cogent poof that fabianist approaches are mere ‘deck-chair rearranging’ and that Capitalism needs to be confronted head-on.
Andrew

]]> By: HR http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27727 HR Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27727 ONLY ONE major river system in CA remains dam-free, not ALL BUT one ... Otherwise a pretty fair good summary of the water welfare system in the golden state. ONLY ONE major river system in CA remains dam-free, not ALL BUT one … Otherwise a pretty fair good summary of the water welfare system in the golden state.

]]> By: Donald Hawkins http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27718 Donald Hawkins Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:09:43 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27718 Yes California is in a bit of trouble because you can't leave out climate change. You said where's the future? That question is the big one the one that can change everything for the better or worst. Yes California is in a bit of trouble because you can’t leave out climate change. You said where’s the future? That question is the big one the one that can change everything for the better or worst.

]]> By: Michael Dawson http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27714 Michael Dawson Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:37:55 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27714 Awesome essay, Rachel! For what it's worth, the word "consumer" is part of the problem. It's a capitalist insult to ordinary people. http://www.consumertrap.com/?page_id=182 Awesome essay, Rachel!

For what it’s worth, the word “consumer” is part of the problem. It’s a capitalist insult to ordinary people.

http://www.consumertrap.com/?page_id=182

]]> By: Joseph Danison http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/the-silence-of-collapse/#comment-27713 Joseph Danison Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:21 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2897#comment-27713 Seems to me the long-term issue of sustainable water management is overshadowed by short-term demands of crisis management relating to a dysfunctional economy and great earthquakes that will occur. As government staggers from one crisis to the next, the tax base gradually evaporates creating a scarcity of financial resources that are barely adequate to cover short-term demands. The long-term water issue so eloquently described by the author will never be addressed. The world's 6tth largest economy can hardly manage to pay the help, let alone undertake a state wide terra-forming program. Seems to me the long-term issue of sustainable water management is overshadowed by short-term demands of crisis management relating to a dysfunctional economy and great earthquakes that will occur.

As government staggers from one crisis to the next, the tax base gradually evaporates creating a scarcity of financial resources that are barely adequate to cover short-term demands.

The long-term water issue so eloquently described by the author will never be addressed. The world’s 6tth largest economy can hardly manage to pay the help, let alone undertake a state wide terra-forming program.

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