(20:00) '[...] you have like this national topdown Research into how to enable a humane form of migration, in so much as hundreds of millions of people are going to be migrating, that's going to be the big challenge of the 21st century. And the second thing, big challenge is geoengineering. In other words what the state does is take controls of these massive challenges and puts research into them and bureaucratic power, money and all the rest of it, and actually says we're going to have a systematic approach for people that need to migrate to the global north, we're going to have a systematic approach to organizing what we need to do over the Arctic to stop it from melting. And no one's pretending it's some sort of ideal utopian solution but it's better than chaos and it's more humane than having a fascistic orientation, for instance.'
Well yes, the return of state organised central planning is a likely development but that doesn't mean the outcomes from that will be any less nightmarish than from free market fundamentalism or that we should be putting our efforts into bringing that about, when really its the world-spanning gigantism of current human social organisation that's the problem, and poses the greatest threat to people and planet as it tries to keep itself going at all costs. Really surprised that Hallam appears to be entertaining this and not apparently concerning himself with the likelihood for colossally damaging unintended consequences from these harebrained schemes. All they'll be used for is to excuse yet more burning of fossil fuels anyway. It's all so f*ing insane...
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