Funny how ‘climate science” seems to jibe exactly with the goals of the Progressive/Leftist movement (via Watts Up With That?)
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources.
Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments. Contrary to the way policymakers usually think about these problems, the new report says that these are not really separate crises at all.
Rather, these crises are part of the same fundamental transition to a new era characterized by inefficient fossil fuel production and the escalating costs of climate change. Conventional capitalist economic thinking can no longer explain, predict, or solve the workings of the global economy in this new age, the paper says.
Those are the stark implications of a new scientific background paper prepared by a team of Finnish biophysicists. The team from the BIOS Research Unit in Finland were asked to provide research that would feed into the drafting of the UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be released in 2019.
Part of this is about
“More expensive energy doesn’t necessarily lead to economic collapse,†Järvensivu told me. “Of course, people won’t have the same consumption opportunities, there’s not enough cheap energy available for that, but they are not automatically led to unemployment and misery either.â€
Which means that the forced governmental transition to really expensive energy won’t necessarily lead to economic collapse, just close to, which means we need that new government controlled economic system, as we see in report itself, as Eric Worrell points to
… Rapid economic transition requires proactive governance – markets cannot accomplish the task
It is clear from these examples that strong political governance is required to accomplish the key transitions. Market-based action will not suffice – even with a high carbon price. There must be a comprehensive vision and closely coordinated plans. Otherwise, a rapid system-level transformation toward global sustainability goals is inconceivable.
It’s all about Big Controlling Government. Don’t let anyone on the Warmist side who’s yammering about science distract you.
Read: Surprise: UN Climate Scientists Want To End Capitalism »
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Rising levels of carbon dioxide could make crops less nutritious and damage the health of hundreds of millions of people, research has revealed, with those living in some of the world’s poorest regions likely to be hardest hit.
As a child in Britain during WWII, I lived in a street of mothers and children. Every father was away fighting. Each house and garden was surrounded by a metal palisade fence. (blah blah blah)
Most Americans do not want to see the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency abolished, despite growing calls for the agency responsible for enforcing federal immigration laws to be dismantled, a new poll shows.
Last spring in the Statehouse, many of my colleagues and I were working hard to pass net neutrality legislation here in New Jersey. Over 30 states have similar bills pending, and three states have already passed their own version of net neutrality rules.
