The climate crisis has little to do with what is physically or technologically possible. It’s all about economics — what is feasible, and what is most profitable. In Capitalism cheap, dirty, and destructive will always win the race when the alternatives are less profitable.
The majority will not accept their 1k flight costing 5 or 10k. The human population simply will not accept a forceful phase-out of GHG’s without alternatives that are equal or cheaper. We’re greedy, and the greed is concentrated at the top.
Exactly. This is all about people trying to come up with a technological solution to retain the same unsustainable lifestyle we already have become complacent with. It’s just not possible; we can’t keep consuming over what’s feasible and wonder why the consequences of overconsumption keep coming up.
The thing is that free markets have a fix for CO2 emissions - my (person A’s) climate and my property being affected by person B’s CO2 emissions is not a consensually entered contract, I didn’t agree to this. So allowing people to release CO2 emissions doesn’t follow the two rules of private property + free markets.
But people who gain from CO2 emissions being allowed just have way to much power
The article talks about biofuel, but not gas to liquids (i.e. Fischer–Tropsch).
Both are expensive but very much possible, it’s only the fact that burning fossil fuels is so cheap that prevents them being economically possible.
The climate crisis has little to do with what is physically or technologically possible. It’s all about economics — what is feasible, and what is most profitable. In Capitalism cheap, dirty, and destructive will always win the race when the alternatives are less profitable.
The majority will not accept their 1k flight costing 5 or 10k. The human population simply will not accept a forceful phase-out of GHG’s without alternatives that are equal or cheaper. We’re greedy, and the greed is concentrated at the top.
Exactly. This is all about people trying to come up with a technological solution to retain the same unsustainable lifestyle we already have become complacent with. It’s just not possible; we can’t keep consuming over what’s feasible and wonder why the consequences of overconsumption keep coming up.
The thing is that free markets have a fix for CO2 emissions - my (person A’s) climate and my property being affected by person B’s CO2 emissions is not a consensually entered contract, I didn’t agree to this. So allowing people to release CO2 emissions doesn’t follow the two rules of private property + free markets.
But people who gain from CO2 emissions being allowed just have way to much power
i had never thought of it that way.
also the irony that farmers dont give a fuck about the environment always gets me.
Yes, fossil fuels are only cheaper because they aren’t paying the full burden of the externalities.