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Bafflingly, many of steps required to fight climate change increase GDP, create economic growth and increase shareholder value. Even within that framing, where
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Bafflingly, many of steps required to fight climate change increase GDP, create economic growth and increase shareholder value.
Even within that framing, where those are more important than foreign children's lives or ecosystems ignoring climate change is a really stupid thing to do.
- louwrentius 3y agoCapitalism got us into this mess and it’s not going to solve it. She’ll got out of renewables because it didn’t make profit enough. We can’t consume our way out of this problem.
- ben_w 3y agoI'm all in favour of someone making a successor to capitalism that accounts for all the things that Adam Smith got as wrong as Karl Marx, but there's no guarantee that any successor is going to be better for the environment; and even if it turns out this (currently hypothetical) successor is good for the environment, we're on enough of a time constraint we should still try to convince all the people who think capitalism is The One True Path to do good things for the environment.