Re:California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission b...
by kristopolous on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:40PM
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Ah we finally agree.
Yes, this is meaningless unenforceable pablum to curry votes prior to an election.
A serious effort would be to do say, an enforceable statewide boycott of imports from nations that are still building fossil fuel plants the same way the abolitionists got rid of global slavery in the 1800s.
A seizing and decomission of all state fossil fuel power production and a disbursement of the war chests to the laid off workers the same way we got rid of global whaling could help too.
There's lots of precedence for this, but we'd need to do some command economy level actions to achieve it.
You'd also need a bunch of political leaders willing to kamikaze their careers to achieve it. I don't see it happening tbh.
Yes, this is meaningless unenforceable pablum to curry votes prior to an election.
A serious effort would be to do say, an enforceable statewide boycott of imports from nations that are still building fossil fuel plants the same way the abolitionists got rid of global slavery in the 1800s.
A seizing and decomission of all state fossil fuel power production and a disbursement of the war chests to the laid off workers the same way we got rid of global whaling could help too.
There's lots of precedence for this, but we'd need to do some command economy level actions to achieve it.
You'd also need a bunch of political leaders willing to kamikaze their careers to achieve it. I don't see it happening tbh.