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What are you trying to argue? That we should not care about climate change because there are reporters who live in expensive cities? Or that no-one living in Lo

• fullshark 5y ago
  Well most of the proposed solutions to climate change issues involve making the proles' standard of living worse which is never going to work. Even something as minor as increasing fuel taxes led to the yellow vest protests. How are any of these major curtailing of consumption solutions going to fly globally without leading to massive civil unrest?
  • cogman10 5y ago
    The issue is there is probably no good way to address climate change without impacting standard of living. The solution is to emit less CO2. Carbon capture/reclamation will never be enough to actually change things particularly with the current levels of emissions. So how do we address that? Best way, IMO, is to go after the largest CO2 emitters. That's transportation, electricity, and industrial emissions (mostly concrete and steel AFAIK). Hitting any of those industries with a tax to incentivize reduction will impact standards of living. It will raise the price of goods which ultimately hit the poor and middle class. You could also subsidize switch over, but that's ultimately a lot harder (and probably less effective) than more general carbon taxes. And, of course, this has to be done globally, so if we really wanted this to be effective then it'd mean not just fixing your own country but also ideally subsidizing or sanctioning/embargoing bad players.
• kulikalov 5y ago
  I don't think this is what he is saying. I think he is just saying that for a lot of people in the world it's hard to prioritize a potential decade(s) away crisis while dealing with life-threatening situations on daily basis.