Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by TOGoS on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:58PM
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> collective action isn't something we can rely on
> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side
Getting the government to do anything that impacts the profits of powerful companies will itself require heroic amounts of well-organized collective action.
> the incentive for a brilliant mind/leader to become the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology
The problem is political, not technical. Moreover, people who become billionaires are averse to questioning the economic systems that prevent us from being able to take collective action to tackle climate change (and other systemic problems), because it has served them so well. That's why they build bunkers and space ships in the hope of personal salvation. They ain't going to fix this for us. It's collective action or apocalypse.
> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side
Getting the government to do anything that impacts the profits of powerful companies will itself require heroic amounts of well-organized collective action.
> the incentive for a brilliant mind/leader to become the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology
The problem is political, not technical. Moreover, people who become billionaires are averse to questioning the economic systems that prevent us from being able to take collective action to tackle climate change (and other systemic problems), because it has served them so well. That's why they build bunkers and space ships in the hope of personal salvation. They ain't going to fix this for us. It's collective action or apocalypse.