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India had 45Ė degrees a few weeks ago š
Consumtion-based CO2e footprint per capita in Sweden: 7.14 metric tons. In India: 1.67 metric tons.
Theyāre suffering for our shopping and travelling.
Shouldering our externalities. Market capitalismās wealth is borrowed and stolen, built on unaccounted for externalities.
Worst economics system ever tried. Seems pretty difficult to get rid of, too.
Even in the context of shitshows like The Great Leap Forward, and in by no means a defense of those atrocitities (letās try to do better), market capitalism is the worst by a huge margin. If it hasnāt doomed the Earth, it has at least risked it. It has directly caused the death of millions. It also caused CAGW. Thereās a good argument for the case that the war in Syria, as one of many examples, was climate/famine related.
The horribly wrong-headed policies (such as, but not limited to, the āFour Pestsā theory that wrecked the ecosystem) exacerbated the 1958ā1961 China famine to almost rival the famines in neighbouring market capitalist (colonially exploited) India, and thatās not OK.
People wrote in suggesting āpatchesā on capitalism like internalizing emission costs, and thatās not an argument against my position, itās a vindication of it. Iāve been kvetching about capitalism being broken for 20 years and if they can finally patch it, then thatās cause for celebration. Iāll believe it when I see it, but I do want it.
What we really need is a complete halt on new oil, coal and gas. But that risks becoming as disastrous as China in the famine years or ÅrÄ« Laį¹ kÄ now, since market capitalismās cushiness is so foundationally predicated on the faux cornucopia named āwasteā.
We need to go to zero extraction of new fossils. These systems are like murder licenses, i.e. pretty short-sighted. I worked with sims with a Swiss climate org a few years ago (one year BPābefore pandemic) and it was frustrating because no matter what their sims forecast (every run a failure), they were hesitant at measures they considered too severeāI asked for an example and they said going to a plant-based diet. š¤¦š»āāļø
Cars and planes and animal ag and fossil fuels are some pretty low-hanging fruit here and people donāt even wanna fix them. One of the reasons the pandemic was so panic-inducingly frustrating is that globabally (not so much here in Sweden, land of Ƥttestupa) people did make some pretty huge changes. Iād wanna see the same urgency applied to CAGW mitigation and adaption.
Itāsā¦ how slow is even possible to go since too slow = failure?
For humans, the slower the better, but the operative parameter is that we canāt let the slowness exceed the slowness-threshold of CAGW.
Decreasing human suffering is fantastic but thereās no point to having the least human suffering on the cinder.
There is a singularity problem in the math of c-tax + div (and an even worse one in cap & tade). A division by zeroālevel borkage once the acceptable levels of fossils reach zero the tax reaches infinite.
Taxes can compensate for problems, like a tax on cars can promote safer traffic etc but when the problem is a very ultimate ultimatum the idea kinda breaks down. So while Iām not gonna stand in the way of c-tax + div, I might even celebrate it (since itās action and we do need action), I also urge yāall to remain at the drawing board, and keep green hatting this š until we figure something good and sustainable and lasting out. And thatās gonna have to include zero (or negative) net fossils.