It seems that many people like Hahnel in the climate justice movement continue to be fooled by proposals coming from capitalist agents that pretend to deal with the threat of climate catastrophe. Such people are apparently incapable of grasping the inescapable fact that capitalism and a sustainable planet are totally incompatible. Referring to the "cap and trade policies" offered by these agents, Davenport writes:
Their purpose is to provide the appearance of doing something while, in fact, fending off a challenge to capitalism by permitting a fossil-fuel-based economy to continue for as long as possible, and, to the extent that transition from fossil fuels does occur, placing as much of the cost as possible on the working class and the developing world.
