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What has not worked either so far is ever stronger talk about impending doom. We might have to contemplate things like geoengineering or whatever but thinking
by RandomLensman 3y ago
What has not worked either so far is ever stronger talk about impending doom.
We might have to contemplate things like geoengineering or whatever but thinking the future is bad is not enough. There has to be a positive vision, too.
- ajmurmann 3y agoThere are plenty of ideas like carbon tax, or more clumsy ones like higher gasoline tax, banning gasoline cars, etc. But no country has sufficient buy-in to do anything that even just is a little inconvenient.
- RandomLensman 3y agoAgain, not a positive vision there: initially increasing costs with a very long payoff period (and also having to live through the change already backed into the climate for quite some time)? That cannot the best we can do - there has to be more we can get out of an energy transition. For example, could have an explicit policy of wanting lower energy costs in high cost places.
- callalex 3y agoI must be misunderstanding what you are looking for, because my understanding of your wish for “lower energy costs in high cost places” sounds the same to me as wishing for everyone to be rich, nobody to be hungry, or for every child to have a pony.
- RandomLensman 3y agoPonies aside, directionally the right way, I'd say. Pushing down energy costs is certainly possible when switching energy sources (and also quite visible in data on effective costs per MWh for different technologies), however, it is rarely made an explicit target.