Black and white cartoon.  Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading "No new oil | so there's a liveable planet for our children."  Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands.  In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level beyond which there will be no livable plant for our children.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    and for many what we do have is still cost prohibitive.

    only because profit is prioritised by a handful of people over the wellbeing of the planet and everyone on it, not because there is an actual lack of money (or even need for it, but I digress) to pay for these things.

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        1 year ago

        But all of this assumes no cost to continuing using oil. Because we don’t count the damages done to climate or our well-being in terms of money.

        If you include the externalities of fossil fuels, it’s very very worth it.

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            1 year ago

            Yes of course I’m in favour of slavery… What do you think???

            We already pay for most things with taxes. Like roads or the military. Somehow all that works out just fine.

            Meanwhile your solution is for everyone to go to depression era thinking… as if that is more realistic. And won’t need regulation too.

            But yes, global cooperation is indeed needed to solve climate change. There is no other way around it. And I never claimed otherwise?

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        1 year ago

        yes,

        only because profit is prioritised by a handful of people over the wellbeing of the planet and everyone on it, not because there is an actual lack of money (or even need for it, but I digress) to pay for these things.