Issue No.
29
November 2009
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| Welcome to November’s Review |
 Tim Black
The UN climate change conference, which takes place in December in Copenhagen, has been hysterically described as ‘mankind’s last chance to save the world’. In this month’s spiked review of books, Josie Appleton examines one of the measures most frequently put forward for ‘saving the world’ – the creation of a global carbon market – and finds that it actually threatens to make the world a madder place, rewarding economic downturn, paying the Third World not to develop, and instituting a vast green bureaucracy. Also this month, Dolan Cummings finds that, behind her anti-worker bluster, Ayn Rand had some quite inspiring stuff to say about the creativity of industry, which stands in stark contrast to today’s view of industrial innovation as exploitation of the environment. Tim Black asks if reading one of Heidegger’s works will really turn you into a card-carrying Nazi, and Guy Rundle asks if Žižek has any solutions to the current economic and political crisis beyond playing the clown of communist-leaning academia. And there’s much more, too... Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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