| So let's pick this apart: - "The authoritarian infrastructure will be built" I'd argue it already has been built, by Google, NSA et al. Also, I fail to see why these "high levels of government regulation" would be bad, since we've tried the alternative and it obviously doesn't work.. - "The Green New Deal has turned into a jobs program." I'm no american, but has this been put into law already? - "the Soviet Union was immensely energy inefficient and polluting" I do hear that from time to time but no one can provide any sources for this claim. Can you? Not planning on protecting the ol' USSR, but still seems insincere to just throw this around without attribution. - "Increasing middle class prosperity is inherently incompatible with reducing carbon output." That's a pretty flat statement. Why would this be so? - "the Global Climate Strike platform categorically rejects market mechanisms to address climate change." We tried this, it hasn't worked (so far). Why should we continue with this measure instead of other approaches? - "Carbon capture and cheap nuclear power" both of which do not exist. See my comment about LCOE and the link below for cheap nuclear power. With regards to carbon capture, we have some pilot plants but this technology (or rather mix of technologies) is nowhere near ready for the massive scale of deployment we'd need already. That's why the focus is on political solutions imo. |