The free market... uh... finds a way. Donate to a foundation if you care so deeply about climate change: If it is happening because of humans, everything we're going to end up doing will be reparative. We don't have sustainable energy sources that are viable and you'd have a lot of pissed off Muslims if you cut off ties with the Saudi oil trade. I don't know if you know this, but Muslims tend to explode when unhappy.
Then the donors control it. The donors will control what the foundation finds and what it does not. This is a poor solution.
As for climate change, it is a reality. An indisputable geological and historical fact. They have found ancient ruins under water. Cities that used to be ports are now land locked. The Nile river was in ancient times much closer to Giza. Polybius goes off on a long discourse regarding the silt levels in Hellespont. Climate change is a fact. It's an ancient fact that has been with our species forever. It's not man made. It can't be. But that doesn't change the fact that our continued existence as a civilization hinges upon coming to terms with it.
Talk to Vee, he will tell you how much life sucked under communism. I dated someone who formerly lived in a communist country and they left for a real chance at accomplishing something with their lives. Communism requires an oppressor to rise up against and to violently conquer. Marxism is great for rallying popular revolts of the proletariat, but not much else. the whole reason their is a resurgence of all this is because the "flower children" are currently indoctrinating students with "critical theory" and "Social Justice courses". It's very cult like and disturbing to most everyone witnessing this metamorphosis of the current generation into professional agitators, Karl Marx didn't even consider himself a Marxist because he didn't believe the ideology was geared towards longterm success.
So what? What do I care about past societies? I live in one where people can die in the waiting room of hospitals while some lazy fat functionary checks their papers!
The "price", is having less people dependent on unemployment and welfare. We need minimal taxes and we need local communities to take over caring for their destitute. The federal government should only exist to protect the sovereignty of the nation state, it should not play the role of parent and caretaker. Ironically communism sterilizes the community and leaves all acts of charity as hollow obligations, AKA it is no longer a special act of kindness but rather compulsory theft.
This might be practical. But you can't just cut people off who have been relying on federal aid and welfare without coming up with a plan for what to do with them first. Phasing our government aid AFTER high levels of employment and better labor conditions have been achieved makes sense. Throwing people out in the cold after generations of bad federal policy made them fucking dependents in the first place is just stupid. It's not even cruel, it's just plain flat out stupid.
[–] collegetoker [S] ago (edited ago)
Are you saying all the treehuggers have no money? Crowd funding, open source information, and distributed analysis and machine learning are the future of science. We literally have machines that have learned physics by observing how objects act in the real world. When they were turned on, they didn't know what physics even was as a concept. Set a learning AI loose on the climate change data and see what it comes up with.
That is a function of insurance and government monopolies driving up the price of insurance. The government gets certain medical devices for a "discount" so they can provide it at a "reduced price" for medicare patients. The company isn't allowed to sell their product at this discounted price and if they continually lowered their prices they'd be in the negative. A guaranteed financier only guarantees that the prices will increase indefinitely.
Yes the climate changes I'm well aware. What I'm saying is our efforts are going to be put towards geo engineering and then alternative energy sources because going off of fossil fuels would spell an explosive conflict originating from Saudi Arabia. The only viable alternative is nuclear energy, and Democrats have made it effectively impossible to dispose of nuclear waste.