[Marxism] A reply to Brian Baker on marxist.com

[Paula]

I wonder if anybody spotted the logical mistake in this reasoning:

> The articles generally follow the following formula. (I know this since
> I have written several of them.) They assert that there is a growing
> scientific consensus that human agency is a factor in climate change.
> They neither attempt to prove the consensus is correct nor to disprove.
> They leave science to the scientists.
>
> They then apply Marxist analysis to the problem as they see it.

Assuming the scientific consensus is right that human agency is a factor in 
climate change - what is *the problem*, and how big is it? There does not 
seem to be a 'scientific consensus' about this.

Surely Paddy (different thread) is right that "No on can deny that climate 
is changing - it always has and will continue to do so".

Lewis Wolpert, in his recent book Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, 
talks about 'virtual risks', those about which science is unsure - he 
includes global warming and BSE.

Paula