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Climate Change is the essence of "Intractable Problems". There is tremendous wealth in oil reserves that is outside the control of the G7 countries: Russia, Ir
by fwungy 3y ago
Climate Change is the essence of "Intractable Problems".
There is tremendous wealth in oil reserves that is outside the control of the G7 countries: Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia. There is also demand for this oil from non-G7 nations who simply don't have the money to go carbon free without descent into starvation, poverty and chaos.
Going carbon free on a big enough scale to impact the climate, according to existing models, requires getting these petroleum reserve holders to give up their massive wealth in exchange for little to nothing, and large developing economies to destabilize themselves to go carbon neutral.
IT ISN"T GOING TO HAPPEN.
Poor Indians and Chinese aren't going to give up their opportunity to secure better lives for themselves for the sake of the climate.
We need to be thinking in terms of mitigations and technologies that reduce climate impacts while being economically sensible.
Yes, it's not optimal, but choices made in the real world rarely are, and as adults we must learn to make them.
- briantakita 3y ago> Going carbon free on a big enough scale to impact the climate, according to existing models, requires getting these petroleum reserve holders to give up their massive wealth in exchange for little to nothing, and large developing economies to destabilize themselves to go carbon neutral. The climate will continue to change even if humanity goes carbon free. When it comes to climate, the only constant is change. > Poor Indians and Chinese aren't going to give up their opportunity to secure better lives for themselves for the sake of the climate. Or fall for the NeoColonialist trap of paying taxes to financial markets to "save the world". Instead, the producer nations will leverage their positions as commodities become more valuable.