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> curbing global warming will require huge changes in the lifestyle of the global middle class. Except it won't. It will cause some large industries to cease
by lamontcg 5y ago
> curbing global warming will require huge changes in the lifestyle of the global middle class.
Except it won't.
It will cause some large industries to cease to exist though.
- FpUser 5y agoIf large industries will cease to exist it will cause big rise in unemployment. This will for sure affect lower and middle classes
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoNot necessarily. It might mean people just shift to different industries.
- mthoms 5y agoMaybe. But even if true, the shift wouldn't be instantaneous. Hence, lots of lower-to-mid timeframe unemployment.
- lamontcg 5y agoIf we could put together a job retraining package and general middle-america bailout package together we could avoid that. But the Democratic constituency is isolated now geographically and across occupations so that they don't get any votes from something like that, and the Republicans will be happy to allow the pain to happen while preventing any support and milking the resentment. So yeah, that's probably what will happen because of our dysfunctional government, but by no means is that an economic certainty.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoBut those industries make the stuff that makes our lifestyle possible.