Quote:
Originally Posted by Nut Nut
To begin with, ...
Good post.
I wouldn't argue that the world has collectively caused a lot of the climate issues that we face today. The US, India and China has caused a literal shitstorm alone.
My argument is the direction you propose in order to eleviate some of these issues. We need a stricter carbon tax, a higher tax on the wealthy as well a smaller things like incentivizing folks to replace their furnace and gas powered heaters with heat pumps and such, incentivize local community-based shopping and how people receive and eat food. Stricter business practices while allowing us to keep our trees as well as our home owners insurance.
It's all good when you mentioned a carbon tax or taxing the ever loving **** out of the rich and educating the public but you're still working under the umbrella of capitalism in that manner. If you want to throw out capitalism for another system that would be better for all, discuss it. But a lot of improvements and technological innovation that you mention, that you would like to see first world countries partake in, in order to slow down or prevent the issues with climate change, are going to be fabricated far quicker, if at all in the economic system that we have now. Its the govt's job to figure out how to put that revenue towards creating a more self sustaining world.
I think chez was kind of eluding a long those line as well as suggesting that it's essentially better to use our advancements in science for good instead of just shutting **** down.
There has been a few pop up accounts that have suggested things like tacking climate change in the name of sweetness and community love, or is capitalism outdated and many of those have quickly turned into fire breathing DPRK death to america folk that you never see again so that is why I am asking you to specify specifics that you feel would work better in practice for all of humanity. Because again, there are a lot of smart people out there and we dont just walk into a casino and tell Phil Ivey how to play poker because we watched some Michael Parenti clips.
Last edited by formula72; 05-23-2024 at 03:03 PM.