• Trump exits Paris climate agreement, again, and issues a flood of anti-climate orders

• The last time it was legal, exports of sea sand destroyed dozens of Indonesian islands—now, the ban is being lifted

• Swarm of jellyfish swimming in bioluminescence looks ‘magical’ – but it’s a warning sign

• Climate change could cut the economy in half, and we’re not ready for it

• The world is on track for between 1.9 and 3.7°C of warming by 2100

• We just lived through a full week of the world’s warmest temperatures ever observed during the middle of January

• Trump stocks EPA with oil, gas and chemical lobbyists

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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  • @[email protected]English
    1•4 days ago

    Just going to make a rant about “anti-capitalism”, that is only meant to add precision to the language you use over what you get angry about.

    The profit motive is never going away. Free markets, that must be fair to be free, have significant advantages over a state monopoly on a good. The main benefit being disruption/improvement is possible/encouraged.

    The problem with late stage oligarchy, is corporatism = supremacy of corporate profits, and the largest corporation owning/deciding government, is that they just want corrupt markets that protect all of their assets/gains/control so far. The US may not have an oil workers union, but their autoworkers unions don’t like disruption either. A completely communist USA might still prefer “energy dominance” and a big 3 automaker ICE vehicles monopoly.

    Disruption means allowing new energy that is not only cheaper, but also avoids the long term sustainability costs of GHG emissions. A carbon tax, right amount = $300/ton = $3/gallon gasoline, whose revenue is paid to residents as an equal dividend is a market policy that directly encourages any disruption and personal behaviour meant to just avoid the tax, or compete against those who don’t try to avoid the tax. It’s not based on BS promises to be greener in future. It does not end when a government rewards its oligarchs by distracting from human sustainability by waging war on Russia. Climate sustainability is not based on getting your own country to dominate through tariffs/subsidy an energy transition, which also happens to be oligarchy/communism agnostic.

    Those who do something will get to profit from doing something. Those who can’t, lose. Instead of relying on BS promises of Carbon capture or nuclear energy, we can let people invest in it if it is not a stupid idea.

    Carbon dividends, also helps make a broader UBI more affordable. UBI means not being so desperate to keep a useless/destructive job, and getting politicians to pander for you to keep your destructive job.