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Ending fossil fuel consumption is at least somewhat relevant to the stated problem...but reconfiguring economic systems? The Greeks couldn't construct a better
by bhupy 7y ago
Ending fossil fuel consumption is at least somewhat relevant to the stated problem...but reconfiguring economic systems? The Greeks couldn't construct a better horse than that.
- nickik 7y agoThe original New Deal was quite clearly designed for that as well. It was not about improving the economy, it was about chaining society and achieve political dominance.
- bhupy 7y agoRight, it is totally orthogonal to the climate, and is already the subject of a forever-long debate over how we ought to organize society. You're going to have a hard time fixing the climate if you also attach with it a completely unrelated laundry list of desired left-wing policy (not even trying to knock left-wing policy). It's functionally equivalent to adding a corporate-gender-diversity quota to the Coronavirus stimulus.