When the only constraint on a profit-driven entity with a business plan that produces and reproduces the equivalent of a Deepwater Horizon (intentionally, not "accidentally") is a unified executive (unchecked by Congress and unconcerned with the courts) . . . someone who thinks he rules this country and therefore the world . . . neither law (US or international) nor morality will prevent the worst from happening.
It seems like economic levers are the only realistic option . . .
If making TMC pay the true cost makes DSM unprofitable . . . they'll stop. Corporations don't do things because they can . . . they do things to make a profit.
Where and how can intervention drive up the total cost of doing business to the point where TMC just gives up?
Exactly—this is where mythology meets governance: when sovereigns stand above the law, we return to the terrain of our old capricious gods, unbound by mortal limits. The shield of executive impunity renders both domestic and international law ornamental, especially when profit is structured as a divine right. In this frame, intervention must be material, not moral. The only language extractive capital understands is cost. So the question becomes: how do we construct a terrain that makes seabed mining untenable, not just reprehensible? Oh, that's the accounting matrix, isn't it?
I think you're going to find some interesting parallels between the work you've been doing and the piece I'm working on for this week's post.
Pleonexia is the "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others". It has direct ties to Hybris (aka Hubris) and it exists in tension with diké, isonomia, and cosmos.
When you set up all of the implicit dialectics . . . you see how the politics, the economics, and the ethics of the present moment are out of balance. The tipping of the scales until one side rests on the ground . . . the swinging of the pendulum until it hits something solid and gets stuck at the highest point of its arc (on one side).
It puts the spotlight on checks and balances but in a way that goes beyond institutions to make each of us responsible for the internal struggle against the natural state of pleonexia and participation in the communal, social, political, economic, and ecological struggles that maintain and sustain balance.
I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it and talking through the overlaps.
The only possible restraint of the rape of all that is sacred would be the swift rise of China along with the rest of the world that is at odds with the grip of the mad US empire.
When the only constraint on a profit-driven entity with a business plan that produces and reproduces the equivalent of a Deepwater Horizon (intentionally, not "accidentally") is a unified executive (unchecked by Congress and unconcerned with the courts) . . . someone who thinks he rules this country and therefore the world . . . neither law (US or international) nor morality will prevent the worst from happening.
It seems like economic levers are the only realistic option . . .
If making TMC pay the true cost makes DSM unprofitable . . . they'll stop. Corporations don't do things because they can . . . they do things to make a profit.
Where and how can intervention drive up the total cost of doing business to the point where TMC just gives up?
Exactly—this is where mythology meets governance: when sovereigns stand above the law, we return to the terrain of our old capricious gods, unbound by mortal limits. The shield of executive impunity renders both domestic and international law ornamental, especially when profit is structured as a divine right. In this frame, intervention must be material, not moral. The only language extractive capital understands is cost. So the question becomes: how do we construct a terrain that makes seabed mining untenable, not just reprehensible? Oh, that's the accounting matrix, isn't it?
I think you're going to find some interesting parallels between the work you've been doing and the piece I'm working on for this week's post.
Pleonexia is the "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others". It has direct ties to Hybris (aka Hubris) and it exists in tension with diké, isonomia, and cosmos.
When you set up all of the implicit dialectics . . . you see how the politics, the economics, and the ethics of the present moment are out of balance. The tipping of the scales until one side rests on the ground . . . the swinging of the pendulum until it hits something solid and gets stuck at the highest point of its arc (on one side).
It puts the spotlight on checks and balances but in a way that goes beyond institutions to make each of us responsible for the internal struggle against the natural state of pleonexia and participation in the communal, social, political, economic, and ecological struggles that maintain and sustain balance.
I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it and talking through the overlaps.
This also kind of sounds like the next post-Thanos series of the Marvel Universe
The only possible restraint of the rape of all that is sacred would be the swift rise of China along with the rest of the world that is at odds with the grip of the mad US empire.
It's happening...