Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y...
by cure on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:13PM
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> For example, AOC's "Green New Deal" proposal was full of social justice programs. Socialism is often put forward as the solution to climate change, although socialist countries have a very poor track record of environmental stewardship.
Which "socialist" countries are those? Do you mean (ex-)communist countries instead? Socialism != communism.
Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y...
by WalterBright on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:20PM
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A better argument you could make is name a socialist country (use whatever definition of socialism works for you) that has a better environmental track record.
For example, AOC's "Green New Deal" proposal was full of social justice programs. Socialism is often put forward as the solution to climate change, although socialist countries have a very poor track record of environmental stewardship.
Free markets, on the other hand, produce the necessary surplus needed to address environmentalism, i.e. free market countries can afford to address it. Marginal economies cannot.