Could we possibly stop appointing neoliberal boomers that haven’t had an original political idea since McGovern to nation-leading posts please? That right there might help the US dramatically, especially in terms of restoring balance to economic and climate policy.
If the US was willing to lead an effort to tax polluting industry and direct the funds from that towards clean tech or energy transition, much of the rest of the world that matters would probably be willing to come along, but signals like this one from Kerry just tell the world that the US doesn’t have the moral courage to even stop subsidizing fossil energy that hasn’t needed subsidies for decades
Problem is, for the people that have the power to make these appointments, it’s a feature, not a bug.
They went from thinking that it was just alarmist scientists talking nonsense to ok it might be real but it won’t affect us until everyone currently living is already dead to ok it might affect some of us living right now but it won’t affect their generation to ok so people are already being affected by it and it’s killing boomers and older (and younger) generations as we speak, but it won’t affect the rich.
I’m curious if they are still in that stage or have moved on to thinking it just won’t affect the wealthy (and their support staff) even if the rich are somewhat vulnerable. And if we’re lucky, there might even still be time once they realize that their support staff won’t be enough to keep the world going once the labour classes die off and that any attempts to run an environment completely cut off from the rest of earth has either failed or required injections from the outside environment to continue.
Could we possibly stop appointing neoliberal boomers that haven’t had an original political idea since McGovern to nation-leading posts please? That right there might help the US dramatically, especially in terms of restoring balance to economic and climate policy.
If the US was willing to lead an effort to tax polluting industry and direct the funds from that towards clean tech or energy transition, much of the rest of the world that matters would probably be willing to come along, but signals like this one from Kerry just tell the world that the US doesn’t have the moral courage to even stop subsidizing fossil energy that hasn’t needed subsidies for decades
Problem is, for the people that have the power to make these appointments, it’s a feature, not a bug.
They went from thinking that it was just alarmist scientists talking nonsense to ok it might be real but it won’t affect us until everyone currently living is already dead to ok it might affect some of us living right now but it won’t affect their generation to ok so people are already being affected by it and it’s killing boomers and older (and younger) generations as we speak, but it won’t affect the rich.
I’m curious if they are still in that stage or have moved on to thinking it just won’t affect the wealthy (and their support staff) even if the rich are somewhat vulnerable. And if we’re lucky, there might even still be time once they realize that their support staff won’t be enough to keep the world going once the labour classes die off and that any attempts to run an environment completely cut off from the rest of earth has either failed or required injections from the outside environment to continue.