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#311206 - 02/25/19 03:32 AM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 11/24/06
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Eventually someone may crack the nuclear nut. It could be two, ten, or 200 years away. We have to make some immediate headway in reducing fossil fuel use. I'd be okay with it if some fossil fuel powered plants ran a few hours at night to make up the difference.
But why are they running at all during the day when solar and wind could make all we need?
Just a thought... West Virginia's collapsed economy was based on coal mining, they have vast pieces of land destroyed by coal mining. Even more vast pieces of land owned by mining companies that will never be mined.
Let's cover those acres with solar panels and a few wind turbines on top of every mountain that's been blasted flat. The entire state could become a power plant and the coal miners would build and maintain the system...Solar mining as it were...
Again, Gates' money would be better spent on real green projects.
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#311210 - 02/25/19 03:06 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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Did I read a headline which says oil companies want the administration to pass legislation to stop investors from pushing for green energy? So we have an administration which is pro oil, anti-green, and lobbied by oil against green and climate ... it would require a seismic shift in voter thinking i.e. changing the ignorance of the Trump Base.
But keep punching away ... education is a long term process
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#311212 - 02/25/19 03:29 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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Carpal Tunnel
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I don't know if willful ignorance can be educated away...
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#311235 - 02/26/19 01:47 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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veteran
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Ecosocialist roundtable A Call to Critically Support the Green New Deal
Brad Hornick
For many decades, scientists have warned that the window for the kind of widespread economic, political, and policy reforms required to avert ecological catastrophe is rapidly closing. Warnings from the scientific community concerning the threat of ecological collapse are universally built around the concepts of “thresholds” and “tipping points” which explicitly refer to threats to the physical preconditions that permit life in the entire biosphere.
These warnings posit a window of opportunity that if not responded to in a dramatic and urgent manner, will be surpassed. The stakes mark a divide between the remaining potential for the exercise of purposeful human action versus the extinguishment of that potential, after which an adequate collective response to ecological crisis becomes perfectly irrelevant as more extreme changes to the climate system become self-generating, locked-in, and irreversible.
So far, authoritative scientific evidence has done nothing to move the world away from a “business-as-usual” socio-economic model that is inherently destructive. “Faster-than-expected” impacts from global warming such as extreme heat and cold, drought, floods, fire, etc. have been met with promises of technological innovation and narrow policy instruments disciplined by neo-liberal capitalism – rather than more profound political engagement and proactive emergency planning.
Today’s political and moral calculus could not be more clear. We can either “give-in” to the ruling class that guarantees a world firmly on course for imminent, intractable and catastrophic ecological and social crisis, or we can begin to recognize our predicament, mobilize, constructively critique, support, and protect the vision for an unprecedented collective response commensurable to the threat.
The challenge is an immense one. Emergency response to a crisis means there is no longer any time for gradual, incremental or “non-disruptive” reductions in emissions. Meeting the obligations that many scientists now say are critical, getting to “net zero carbon” virtually instantaneously, requires more than an immediate shut-down the planet’s fossil fuel industries.
It also implies a radical retrenchment or collapse of the dominant industries and infrastructure based upon fossil fuel production, including automobiles, aircraft, shipping, petrochemical, synthetic fabrics, construction, agribusiness, industrial agriculture, packaging, plastic production (disposables economy), and the war industries.
Such massive structural changes in our industrial base will only be productively managed if society develops the resiliency and flexibility to withstand the challenges of social transformation. Most importantly, this requires an active participation of organized labor and environmentalists to ensure all people continue to have work, food, shelter and other basic needs met.
Political organizing around the Green New Deal represents a potential breakthrough for many – a recognition of the magnitude and urgency of the social and political changes that are required for civilizational survival. Inevitably, this call to action will require popular mobilization to compensate for the power of intransigent vested corporate and political interests.
The GND stakes new ground and proposes new battle-lines for the climate justice movement to authentically challenge the priorities of capitalism over people and the planet. It will be denounced as “radical,” “idealistic,” and even “socialist” by those intent on ratcheting-up the ideological battle. Supporters and constructive critics of the GND should prepare themselves to unapologetically lead the charge.
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#311246 - 02/26/19 07:28 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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old hand
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Loc: Highlands, Tx
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don't shatter my dreams and hopes for a future where I wear sunshades
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#311247 - 02/26/19 07:34 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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old hand
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I may be wrong or more likely unaware, but it seems to me we are on the precipice mankind has never seen. We may have a real opportunity to actually manage our future.
Imagine the first men looking to the heavens with arms outraised proclaiming loudly that they would do something to manage their environment. Imagine the world they would have left us all these generations later.
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#311261 - 02/27/19 12:39 AM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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It's the Despair Quotient!
Pooh-Bah
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Did I read a headline which says oil companies want the administration to pass legislation to stop investors from pushing for green energy? What?? How does one make it illegal to invest in green power?
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#315020 - 09/07/19 12:49 PM
Re: The Green New Deal, explained
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veteran
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Lost in all the posturing and hyperbole is the idea that it is possible to develop socio/enviro/capitalist solutions to what ails us - call it “solutions with benefits”.
But to do so will require a much higher level of wokeiness among the general population.
(Insert biochar+energy pitch here...)
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