The good news is that, if the US economy collapses, the Pashtun
farmer in northeastern Pakistan, the Iraqi shopkeeper in Fallujah, the
Iranian worker in Tehran, and the peasant in Venezuela, will no longer
have to worry about being bombed or having their children mowed down by
a US helicopter gunship. The US would no longer have the funds to pay
for such foreign wars. And because a collapse of the US consumer
economy would also drag the rest of the world into a prolonged global
slump, perhaps reminiscent of the 1930s, we might actually see a
significant enough drop in carbon emissions from idled cars, factories
and power plants that the global warming catastrophe that is
threatening us all will be significantly delayed, giving humanity time
to come up with a serious long-term response.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His
latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and
now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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