2020 US Election Thread

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The dream that environmental fixes can coincide with capitalism is so incredibly contrary to reality that it’s not even worth considering.

it's far easier to conceive than waiting for socialism to come

The basic technology that would be required to make the difference would be renewable energy and carbon/methane trapping technologies. None of that is out of the realm of possibility in terms of where we are currently.

They developed the atom bomb from virtually 0 understanding of nuclear physics by gathering up the top scientists and giving them the funds they needed to work. They put a man on the moon within a generation of having normalized air travel by doing the same thing.

Understand this... Even a socialist world will require the same technological advances to address climate change. So you would literally have to argue that it's somehow more plausible to fundamentally reorganize society and the economy within the next 30 years and THEN make the technology to fix climate change... Rather than getting the govt to fund the research and development to make said technology and then advocate for the restructuring of society in the long term.

You're fighting a losing battle to argue that your idea is actually more plausible.