A century seems to be a much more practical timeline to change the world’s economy than a decade. The thing would be done privately rather than by government fiat. The best part is that we would get to keep air travel, meat eating, and all the other things that help make life bearable, plus we get space travel as an integral part of the economy.
One stated goal of the Green New Deal Resolution championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is to "remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector," in part by increasing "investment in high-speed rail," "public transit," and "zero-emission vehicle infrastructure." If the experience of Ocasio-Cortez's own campaign for the House of Representatives last year is any indication, however, the transition would be a difficult one.
A review of disbursements by the Ocasio-Cortez 2018 campaign reveals a clear inclination to choose air travel over rail for long-distances and personal vehicles over public transit for local trips.
Total disbursements to airlines totaled $20,490 to at least six different carriers for at least 39 trips. Disbursements for rail travel (Amtrak) totaled $3,147 for at least ten trips.
For short distance travel, the campaign utilized the car services Lyft, Juno, and Uber to the tune of $14,288, while disbursements for the Metro totaled $5,368.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:21 am
How in the fuck did she spend 20k on air travel for a congressional campaign?? Her district is literally just a few neighborhoods in the Bronx and Queens.
After World War II, the working class in developed nations become materially rich, undermining the case that only a radical, socialist transformation of society could end poverty.
In response, radical critics of capitalism shifted their focus. The problem was no longer that capitalism was causing material poverty but rather that it was destroying the environment.
"The needs of industrial plants are being placed before man's need for clean air,” wrote socialist-turned-environmentalist Murray Bookchin in his 1962 book, Our Synthetic Environment.
Capitalism was creating contradictions between humans and nature, not just between humans. The “pernicious laws of the marketplace are given precedence,” wrote Bookchin, “over the most compelling laws of biology"
But they had a problem: nuclear power. Everyone had known since the 1940s that it could power industrial civilization while slashing pollution and shrinking humankind’s environmental footprint.
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The problem with nuclear is that it doesn’t demand the radical re-making of society, like renewables do, and it doesn’t require grand fantasies of humankind harmonizing with nature.
Nuclear power is not renewable. It can only ever be a stop gap.
Uranium will run out and then they have to use plutonium which is much more dangerous.
If people could stop pretending climate change is a hoax then money could be put into clean technology.
Just half of the money spent a on arms in a single year would be enough.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
“In the deal, what we talk about — and it’s true — is that we need to take a look at factory farming, you know? Period. It’s wild,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so it’s not to say you get rid of agriculture. It’s not to say we’re gonna force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that. But it’s to say, ‘Listen, we gotta address factory farming. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Like, let’s keep it real.”
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