Fwd: Screenshot (Feb 16, 2026 5:49:12 AM)

Socialism must consider the limits of growth.

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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Screenshot (Feb 16, 2026 5:49:12 AM)
To: Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com>

Thanks for your feedback,Steve. The better scientists still think that the forced cooperation of bourgeois governments, hopelessly bogged down by capitalist interests , can save the planet. To be sure, there is a serious ecological crisis in our times ( the only times we will ever know). But the flunkies of science ( idols of the New Atheism Cult) will not save the planet. Try a RETURN TO SIMPLICITY? Consider, as I did years ago when thinking rational socialism, the LIMITS OF GROWTH. Socialism cannot be now UTOPIAN with the spirit of the HUMAN REICH.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:52 AM Steve Ruggieri <s.ruggieri54@gmail.com> wrote:

Excellent Ron! Your comment was unique with rational insights. I'd be interested to see if you get any feedback. 

I think the planet was doing just fine before the Anthropocene bubble. 

But here we are— in God's waiting room… it's starting to get chilly in here. 

It's a head-scratcher for sure! 

Talk soon,

—Steve

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 8:56 AM Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve, when there were no human beings around to mess up the environment of Good Earth there were eons of "Snowball Earth".

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Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 5:50 AM
Subject: Screenshot (Feb 16, 2026 5:49:12 AM)
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The hubris of environmental science?