Flashback 2008: Alexander Cockburn: ‘I have been treated as if I have committed intellectual blasphemy. “This turn to climate catastrophism is tied into the decline of the left…’
'...and the decline of the left's optimistic vision of altering the economic nature of things through a political program. The left has bought into environmental catastrophism because it thinks that if it can persuade the world that there is indeed a catastrophe, then somehow the emergency response will lead to positive developments in terms of social and environmental justice'
