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by impossiblefork 1299 days ago
Reducing energy use to tackle climate change will impact GDP, and thus increase unemployment, and thus as a consequence lead to reduced competition for workers, and thus a reduced labour share of GDP. It's thus something which can greatly benefit large capital owners while harming workers.

For this reason it isn't completely unimpeachable.

It'd be great if it could be done without harming workers, but it would harm workers, and disproportionately.