When climate science deniers do their "How you gunna pay for it?!" routine to discredit any attempts at building a sustainable economy they never ever tell how they plan to pay for stuff like this happening all the time.
If the response to COVID has proven anything, it's that capitalism is more than capable of conditioning the populace to tolerate sustained mass death so long as the cause of that mass death is portrayed as inherent to the world we live in, and therefore unavoidable.
The theory is simply that The Market Will Solve It.
You're going to buy your grain from the Inuits and you're going to sell your house to Aquaman, and if you don't come out ahead then that's just because you weren't as smart as the guys who got $10T bailouts.
When climate science deniers do their "How you gunna pay for it?!" routine to discredit any attempts at building a sustainable economy they never ever tell how they plan to pay for stuff like this happening all the time.
If the response to COVID has proven anything, it's that capitalism is more than capable of conditioning the populace to tolerate sustained mass death so long as the cause of that mass death is portrayed as inherent to the world we live in, and therefore unavoidable.
The theory is simply that The Market Will Solve It.
You're going to buy your grain from the Inuits and you're going to sell your house to Aquaman, and if you don't come out ahead then that's just because you weren't as smart as the guys who got $10T bailouts.