A proportional national responsibility for carbon production cannot be cancelled by certain dimensional initiatives of “degrowth”. It remains questioning what actual national industrial production policies are in place in comparison to international trade and to compare the “othering” of externality production of social costs with the reality that it is not about one person, one footprint but the necessity to confront the coming failure of remedial Climate Crisis efforts in advance of COP28. Simple example: in the above chart a significant number of mining concerns are headquartered in Canada despite its small proportional emissions output.
"Green capitalism" doesn't mean capitalism is internalizing its environmental externalities and becoming "sustainable." It means economic sectors and investment linked to renewable energy, adaptation, or mitigation are new sites of accumulation, class conflict, and geopolitics.
The following example is a good step forward that may not truly yield long-run results after 2024. It may be that moratoria on leasing property rights in a wide range of mineral industries may need to be enforced to redirect investment and to decide on global regulatory targets for both use and exchange from a much longer list of strategic minerals available for extraction. Means testing could mean something much different when the contradictions of cap and trade are made clearer and realigned in terms of global necessity, circular economies, and stronger initiatives than green new deals(sic).
@POTUS has introduced environmental protections for the Arctic. @Interior will cancel oil & gas leases from a 2021 lease sale that auctioned off lands in AK’s Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain. This is a big victory for all who’ve worked tirelessly to defend the Arctic Refuge. But doesn’t address the Manchin effects of other lease guarantees elsewhere.
Is this another move to support the GND. Or is it like the throttling of prices by the Saudis to favor capitalist fossil fuel profits in another election year. 10% profit fossil fuels + billions in govt subsidies vs 2-3% profit with renewable & close to zero govt subsidies.
In a new presentation, @algore argues it’s not b/c the technology to reduce carbon isn’t ready. It’s because the people who profit from carbon aren’t ready—and never will be, until we make them.
As Bruno Latour wrote , "[No] major corporation has spent a penny to produce ignorance about the…Higgs boson. But denying the climatic mutation is another matter entirely: financing floods in. Ignorance…is such a precious commodity that it justifies immense investments."
Rather than nurture the next generation of conservative academics and journalists, Republican billionaires bankroll PR schemes. To many GOP donors, the short-term benefits of electing a “fiscally responsible,” alleged child predator outweigh the costs of a new conservative movement predicated in decency. Though the John Birch Society’s fringe libertarianism has long overshadowed every Koch-funded institution (from Americans for Prosperity’s grassroots squabbling to the harrowed halls of George Mason’s Mercatus Center), the ideology now chokes the political landscape. Strangled by oligarchy, the American people gasp for air, only to be greeted by Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe masquerading as a paramedic.
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Apologies for the lateness. Somehow I keep forgetting when the end of months arrive and any physical discomfort is distracting as I have given myself a bunch to tasks to accomplish.