You are forgetting the most important way that proper systemic incentives are created (and to forget this is typical for our time). That is the markets and the market mechanism. Once renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels, there is no turning back anymore to them.Science tells us what solutions are possible, engineers have to actually make those solutions happen, entrepreneurs have to fund those engineers in order for them to be able to do so, and politics has to create the proper systemic incentives (some combination of carrots and sticks) to make it more obviously in those entrepreneurs best interests to pay the engineers to use the science to fix the damn problem already. — Pfhorrest
Remember that the market isn't made just from the producers/suppliers/industry owners. That's just one side of the coin. There's also the aggregate demand, the buyers, consumers etc. Is as important.Very simple, maybe a bit too simple. Who will own future energy? What will they charge, what will their bottom line business practice be? — Brett
Yes. Taxes and wealth transfers have been invented. But how you calculate 'public harm' is quite difficult when you think of it.By talking about incentives, I mean exactly making sure that the market price accurately reflects the real price. If non-renewables are causing a public harm, then that cost needs to be factored into the market cost of them (by making the producers and/or users of them bear that cost -- which is a matter of politics, since this is a tragedy of the commons situation) so that there will be appropriate market pressures to transfer away from them. — Pfhorrest
Remember that the market isn't made just from the producers/suppliers/industry owners. That's just one side of the coin. There's also the aggregate demand, the buyers, consumers etc. Is as important. — ssu
First, there's a great difference between an individual consumer and aggregate demand. And all those finished goods and services demanded in an economy aren't used just by 'us' as consumers. The demand side has within itself also producers and companies too as buyers. Add into the equation Global demand, the demand from other countries that make the exports of a country, which naturally are of huge importance to export oriented countries.But if the buyer/consumer really had that much effect on the market then we probably wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now, that is the general cost of living versus wages versus a consumerism that seems to be insatiable. — Brett
I am not sure from your English if they have approved the use of nuclear power or they just have the power (political power) to approve it or not. Please report back to me what you meant.
And then the EU politicians are all tripping over themselves and fawning over her with smiles in their faces while they get castrated by a little girl, because — Hallucinogen
This is precisely the sort of reaction that Greta's parents would like her to provoke. If I have a political statement to make, and I have a child do it in the most controversial manner possible, I can guarantee a backlash. Which then makes my opponnents look like horrible people, attacking a child of all things. — Pneumenon
Luckily this isn't Greta, the teen does know something, it is that she doesn't know everything and it's for the adults to solve the issues. This the good thing about Ms Thunberg.The "solutions" they come up with are all going to slow down innovation. And innovation is, funnily enough, the very thing that's allowed us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the first place. — Hallucinogen
When a man uses his feet to do something the hands are supposed to do, it means the hands are severely incapacitated. — TheMadFool
Hey, this is an age-old problem with men. Throughout the ages, we've used our wankolos when we ought to have used our heads.
Same effect. — god must be atheist
We have not merely been given the world from our parents, we are also borrowing it from our children. — some proverb
What's the worst that can happen if we act on climate change? — jorndoe
The economy collapses tomorrow and we all go hungry and die.What's the worst that can happen if we do nothing? — jorndoe
Compromise.What's the responsible thing to do? — jorndoe
Here is her opening speech (if I got the correct one from yesterday). Might be some other speech, because in this one I don't hear anything optimistic, but only accusations.I don't have a transcript to hand, but his basic message is that by being optimistic we can deliver unlimited power supplies, unlimited energy is within our grasp. Rather than listening to the doom mongers telling us that the apocalypse is upon us. — Punshhh
Florida Lawmakers Create a Task Force on Sea Level Rise — ZzzoneiroCosm
The task force calls on Floridians to 'stand their ground' against sea level rise. Millions drive to the coast and begin firing on the encroaching sea." — ZhouBoTong
And the truth about Trump's economic boom: — ssu
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