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How have we done in the last 40 years dealing with climate change? Peak fossil fuels Real Soon Now I’d say Carl Sagan nailed it: https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
by melling 2y ago
How have we done in the last 40 years dealing with climate change? Peak fossil fuels Real Soon Now
I’d say Carl Sagan nailed it:
https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=wJuFlcBbelXVfn6u https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=wJuFlcBbelXVfn6u
- analognoise 2y agoStill waiting on that global consciousnesses. It’s a nice idea though.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoStill waiting on his first suggestion of cutting down on the subsidies given to oil and gas, which is, in theory at least, simpler to achieve.
- therealdrag0 2y agoMy impression is there aren’t really subsidies for fossil fuels other than as a rhetorical tool. What is calculated as subsidies are things like wars in the Middle East or not pricing in externalities. So everyone can go “ra ra remove the subsidies” and then the politician is left with no subsidy to remove. Instead they have to do much more difficult work of passing new legislation that to the average voter sounds like punishing fossil fuels.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoWell the IMF thinks there are over a Trillion dollars of explicit subsidies every year. https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies#A%20Global%20Picture%20of%20Energy%20Subsidies https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie... And another 6 Trillion in implicit subsidies by ignoring the costs of local pollution etc. But yeah, if you categorically define something as "too hard" then it's too hard. Getting some percentage of that blood money back as campaign contributions and bribes is I'm sure not a factor, it's just those pesky voters to blame.
- therealdrag0 2y agoThanks for sharing. Notably to me the “explicit” category appears near zero in North America which is what I’m most familiar with and concerned about, and where I mostly hear people complain about subsidies. But for sure would welcome those other regions to remove their subsidies!
- sitkack 2y agoAnti-intellectualism and the push to the right is a drive to prevent a global consciousnesses. The best thing we can do is encourage critical thinking regardless of ideology. Education cures all ills.
- svieira 2y ago> Education cures all ills. That's what Socrates thought. But I don't think it's correct. Education enables, but does not cure. What one chooses to do is not a product of what one knows alone.
- everybodyknows 2y agoEducation, as opposed by the will to deny inconvenient evidence, have been contesting this issue for the last 40-some years. From the current scorecard: Voter polls predict the next POTUS will be a man who has told us that "Climate change is a hoax."
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