Literally every single one of these points is going to be needed to deal with global warming this century. We'll need huge infrastructure spending to put us on clean energy, sustainable transport, insulated homes, and so on. Not to mention massive levees and water management projects to prevent important cities from getting swamped. We'll need a massive state-managed relocation program to get people out of danger areas and put up sea barriers, as well as to deal with millions of refugees. All of the oil company CEOs, all the conservative pundits, the anti-nuclear hippies, and so on will have to disappear. Food and water rationing will be required to prevent mass starvation, and new farmlands will have to be perpetually seized as the arable land region changes. We'll have to invade countries that refuse to move to sustainable energy and green living.
When I look at the reality of climate change… the droughts and floods, the famine and war it will cause… The only logical solution I can see is an ecological dictatorship of the proletariat. I am for Eco-Stalinism.
Oliver Ward
It's way too late to avert it, the most we can do is prepare for it and mitigate the damage
Next human bottleneck
Mason Morgan
I've seen this post before.
Thomas Thomas
It's far too late for that to have any effect. Just twenty to 10 years ago we were in the window of "almost not point of no return, but we can change", and guess what, there wasn't enough change.
And we slid past the finish line to Point of No Return. It's nice we're investing in reducing greenhouse gasses long after the point when it shoved have been given the urgency it requires, but we didn't, now all we can do is delay the worst aspects of it. I don't even know if we will.
Camden Torres
Not good enough. Solar requires rare materials that we only have so much of, and a huge amount of energy to produce in the first place. You're right that China is taking good and necessary measures, but it doesn't prove the status quo is sufficient. China's capitalism is more adept in dealing with issues with no profit motive, but is still ultimately tied to the pitfalls of capital, ie production for exchange, falling rate of profit, etc. The only way to circumvent resource shortage and climate change is a social system of distribution that doesn't rely on peoples' short term desires.
Asher Moore
Your meme will never take off and isn't funny in the slightest. Shut the fuck up and even more so if you actually believe in this.
John Ramirez
Addressing climate change is not possible in an economic system predicated on perpetual economic growth. There's something called 'Jevon's Paradox,' which states that gains in efficiency are fed back into the system and end up intensifying exploitation in the long run. A massive expansion of renewable/nuclear power, carbon sequestration, etc. don't solve the problem unless they are deployed within an economic system that is steady-state or practices controlled degrowth. Otherwise the increase in pollution and resource use from economic expansion will eat the savings from more efficient technology.
'Eco-socialism' is not the only way to successfully achieve a no-growth economy, however it is the only humane option for the majority of humanity. The problem is that resource depletion and climate pollution are undermining the conditions for a socialist society to exist. An alternative like the intentional extermination of the surplus population could achieve an ecologically positive outcome, but a society that could carry that out successfully would be barbarous.
Ethan Mitchell
Unironically support this. Pretty sure I even came up with the term.
