Comments on: Venezuela and China – Towards a Multi-Polar World http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2006/10/19/venezuela-and-china-%e2%80%93-towards-a-multi-polar-world/ The Politics, Economics & Culture of Radical Change Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Carl Davidson, SolidarityEconomy.net http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2006/10/19/venezuela-and-china-%e2%80%93-towards-a-multi-polar-world/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Carl Davidson, SolidarityEconomy.net Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:58:01 +0000 http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2006/10/19/venezuela-and-china-%e2%80%93-towards-a-multi-polar-world/#comment-70 A good piece. It shows the importance to South-South cooperation to challenge the old hegemonism, plus the added factors of 'high road' globalization and encroaching worker control in these new industries. My one concern, however, symbolized by the picture, is its roots in the PetroCulture, taking all those underground hydrocarbons and pumping them into the atmosphere. I can accept it as a short-term solution, especially in the less developed world, but in the longer run, and beginning now, it needs to be paired with developing renewable, noncarbon energy systems to supplant the old. A good piece. It shows the importance to South-South cooperation to challenge the old hegemonism, plus the added factors of ‘high road’ globalization and encroaching worker control in these new industries.

My one concern, however, symbolized by the picture, is its roots in the PetroCulture, taking all those underground hydrocarbons and pumping them into the atmosphere. I can accept it as a short-term solution, especially in the less developed world, but in the longer run, and beginning now, it needs to be paired with developing renewable, noncarbon energy systems to supplant the old.

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