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> Every analysis shows that actually dealing with the problem front and center invigorates the economy That's nonsense. First of all it involves spending trill
by lazyjones 7y ago
> Every analysis shows that actually dealing with the problem front and center invigorates the economy
That's nonsense. First of all it involves spending trillions. Who is going to pay for that? Sure, if you spend trillions on anything, the economy will be invigorated - but whose economy? Buying solar panels made in China isn't going to help your own economy as much as spending the same money on locally made products.
> The only alternative consistent with the facts is they are beholden to fossil industry.
It would really help the cause if people who supported it stopped using such obviously wrong arguments.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoMobilising for war involved spending billions, and pulled the US out of the Great Depression as New Deal spending hadn't been enough. Quantative easing to correct the excesses of the banks in '08 involved spending trillions yet was more indirect and less effective than more traditional forms of stimulation. That spending invigorates economies is pretty much unarguable. Choosing more carefully, and directing where that spending goes is better than leaving it to the random walk of the market. Pretty much everything is made in China, yet installing those solar panels will require local companies and engineers. Were they made locally the boost might be higher, but so few products are made locally in our globalised world that it's probably harder to unwind globalisation than fix the climate with foreign made panels.