Re: Proving what I've been saying for years, carbon credits/ETS is a scam Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on August 25, 2023, 11:43 am, in reply to "Re: Proving what I've been saying for years, carbon credits/ETS is a scam"
We should be prioritising providing for the basic needs of all people. Which means a massive redistribution of wealth - and power - both locally and globally. But corporations promote profligate consumerist lifestyles - and the fantasy that they can be extended globally. We fetishise 'growth' and treat 'the economy' as an abstraction whose needs must be catered for as if it is somehow separate from the well-being of people. Consumerism is the modern 'sin'. A kind of addiction. We know it is bad for the planet and does not make us happy but we carry on regardless. Then, we have a certain faith that somehow technology will save us - from ourselves. We can wash away our greed in the cool pure waters of 'green' technology. But, technology won't save us. Only a fundamental change in our relationship to the rest of 'nature' (including our own nature) can do that.
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