Climate change theory, if we believe it or not, I do, scientifically true or not, is irrelevant if we are not bold enough and deny its root cause.
Climate change deniers and fanatics please relax and find a quiet moment, before reading on.
What is root cause?
Systemic robbery through privatisation of the commons and taxing the earnings of labour and capital. Insanity.
How do we insist on treating it?
By demanding we stop using fossil fuels or taxing their use, end growth, ask us to rob the wealthy. Futile and offensive.
How is this juxtaposition reconciled?
By asking exactly why we are polluting the very thing that gives it life when there is cheaper cleaner energy in abundance all else being equal. And by not stopping asking until we have traced the problem all the way back to the root.
This blog post idea is primary science. I can think of no one else who has made it this far. This shows how bad things have got. Even the great and the good are no longer great and good enough.
So why are we polluting?
Because it seems much cheaper. Our wages are falling in proportion to the costs of living. We fear becoming poor, even the wealthy, due to this. So we say:
"Yes we know pollution is bad and want to stop. But we have famillies to feed first, our wages are falling, we will do something about pollution one day, but not today"
Hoping that one day we will get over our fear of poverty and can finally address it. But while current economic injustice persists, that day will never come. This root cause always overwhelms our ability to get on top of it.
Nevertheless this fear is perfectly rational. Its is true. Our wages and salaries do fall no matter how much we produce. The Law of Rent shows how the more produced, the more land values rise, the more of the distribution is taken from the producer, the more is placed by the law into the property owners pocket, the more the wealth divide widens, the further away from sustainability things become.
So unless this economic injustice is resolved, at the root, nothing will change. It will actually get worse. People are compelled to keep burning fossils until they all run out. There are plenty of carbon stores to last for many centuries. Peak Oil is a dangerous and ignorant myth.
How about a carbon tax? Won't that increase the same fear of poverty? Political dynamite. We will vote for that even less than a property tax! Daft.
Look around today. Ask anyone if they are willing to go to the root on this. Astonishingly you will find that even the best of us, will say:
"NO!"
THAT is the real problem. Hypocrisy.
Climate change deniers and fanatics please relax and find a quiet moment, before reading on.
What is root cause?
Systemic robbery through privatisation of the commons and taxing the earnings of labour and capital. Insanity.
How do we insist on treating it?
By demanding we stop using fossil fuels or taxing their use, end growth, ask us to rob the wealthy. Futile and offensive.
How is this juxtaposition reconciled?
By asking exactly why we are polluting the very thing that gives it life when there is cheaper cleaner energy in abundance all else being equal. And by not stopping asking until we have traced the problem all the way back to the root.
This blog post idea is primary science. I can think of no one else who has made it this far. This shows how bad things have got. Even the great and the good are no longer great and good enough.
So why are we polluting?
Because it seems much cheaper. Our wages are falling in proportion to the costs of living. We fear becoming poor, even the wealthy, due to this. So we say:
"Yes we know pollution is bad and want to stop. But we have famillies to feed first, our wages are falling, we will do something about pollution one day, but not today"
Hoping that one day we will get over our fear of poverty and can finally address it. But while current economic injustice persists, that day will never come. This root cause always overwhelms our ability to get on top of it.
Nevertheless this fear is perfectly rational. Its is true. Our wages and salaries do fall no matter how much we produce. The Law of Rent shows how the more produced, the more land values rise, the more of the distribution is taken from the producer, the more is placed by the law into the property owners pocket, the more the wealth divide widens, the further away from sustainability things become.
So unless this economic injustice is resolved, at the root, nothing will change. It will actually get worse. People are compelled to keep burning fossils until they all run out. There are plenty of carbon stores to last for many centuries. Peak Oil is a dangerous and ignorant myth.
How about a carbon tax? Won't that increase the same fear of poverty? Political dynamite. We will vote for that even less than a property tax! Daft.
Look around today. Ask anyone if they are willing to go to the root on this. Astonishingly you will find that even the best of us, will say:
"NO!"
THAT is the real problem. Hypocrisy.
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