A carbon tax actually would've averted climate change. Where neolibs are wrong is thinking that just because you can frame a fix in terms of simple economic measures, doesn't mean the underlying power dynamics go away. The reason capitalist countries can never pass (relevantly-sized) carbon taxes is precisely because they'd work.
Well, we are all gonna die for climate apocalypse seasoned with fascism, but at least the Hamptons will get flooded
Yes, to the government, who will compensate them, but maybe they will cry on tv about it.
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
Capitalist production, however, develops technology only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the worker.
Before I can determine if it is good or not I must know if it makes the line go up or down.
On the bright side, this means the Northwest Passage opening up, so now Canada gets to worry about sovereignty and international shipping gets to take a shortcut.
I'm totally calm, completely relaxed, not constantly about to panic
i love to have a literal pandemy killing thousands of people a day and have to think FUCK THAT IS NOT EVEN OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM This for sure will not drive me insane
if this hellworld gives one concession maybe the form of fascism we collapse into will be ecofascist
Yeah, fuck that ice. Dumb fucking ice, just fucking sitting there. I'm glad it's gone! The world's better off without it!
We're definitely having a BOE (blue ocean event, no ice at all over the artic during the summer) within the next 10 years
There is one good thing: Obama's Martha's Vineyard mansion will fucking flood, probably.
