It is striking how much the talks seem designed to meet bureaucratic demands rather than say anything strong, saying only things that everyone already knows.
powerful. question: the ww2 response created jobs and cash flow. The response to climate must reduce economic activity (on the assumption that such activity requires energy) not to increase it. Thought?
So true. It requires a new economic model. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economy comes to kind. A huge investment on the one hand, tge creation of an entirely new economy on the other.
Kate is smart and communicates, but there's no politics nor institutional analysis in her work that I have seen. So her proposals are policy not acts. So she seems stuck where we all are. Like watching a tsunami from the edge of the wet sand and knowing its too late to try to run back up the beach.
Or in the words of Milton Friedman: "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."
Will we ever see something akin to what we committed to during WW II? https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191213_research-spending-chart_642.png
powerful. question: the ww2 response created jobs and cash flow. The response to climate must reduce economic activity (on the assumption that such activity requires energy) not to increase it. Thought?
So true. It requires a new economic model. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economy comes to kind. A huge investment on the one hand, tge creation of an entirely new economy on the other.
Kate is smart and communicates, but there's no politics nor institutional analysis in her work that I have seen. So her proposals are policy not acts. So she seems stuck where we all are. Like watching a tsunami from the edge of the wet sand and knowing its too late to try to run back up the beach.
Her advantage over ours is that as the current system gets increasingly brittle, people will look around for what alternatives might work instead and pick up her model: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/amsterdams-doughnut-economy-puts-climate-ahead-of-gdp
Or in the words of Milton Friedman: "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around."