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it’s forecast that oil firms will produce an additional 7m barrels per day over the next decade, it’s those at the top who need to be forced to change.
Again, they don’t produce all those barrels just for the sake of it - they produce it because there is demand for oil, due to transportation, heating, plastics and so on.
Surely we need to solve this on the demand side; just turning off the supply seems a reckless way to transition the economy.
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Surely we need to solve this on the demand side; just turning off the supply seems a reckless way to transition the economy.
Both. Make it politically expedient, economically acceptable and make law. We do it all the time.
Give a people’s assembly the best available evidence. It could be credible (and therefore politically unpopular to dismiss it’s recommendations).
George Mombiot illustrated why we should try: Scientific reality is fixed. Political reality can feel fixed, but of course it isn’t.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49906062
'capitalism allocates resources efficiently'
miro_o
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Could you elaborate on this?
I think protest is needed and welcome – climate change is clearly a crisis. Side note: If we collectively renamed the phrase to ‘Climate Collapse’ it might do something to highlight the urgency of the matter.
But surely how I clean my porridge bowl every morning has absolutely zero impact on climate change? If twenty firms are behind a third of all carbon emissions and pro fossil fuel think tanks, lobbyists, politicians and in turn governments continue to block real measures of change and a switch to renewables, then unless I’m washing my bowl in crude oil, well, does it matter?
Isn’t essentially what’s needed a total restructuring of capitalism? I often end up thinking that the very people at the top who could create meaningful change are the ones who have successfully made a lot of people at the bottom believe that using a cardboard straw is all they need do.
I’m genuinely not trolling here or being intentionally obtuse and I’m happy to be educated but I’d like to receive more than the often said “well if everyone thought like that...” response. Because isn’t the point that extinction rebellion highlights so well, that it doesn’t matter if we all scrubbed our porridge bowls clean with brute force alone, when it’s forecast that oil firms will produce an additional 7m barrels per day over the next decade, it’s those at the top who need to be forced to change.