• itappearsthat@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Read Half Earth Socialism. Or if the S word scares you off read The Ministry for the Future. It’s a hard sci-fi novel so it’s entertaining. It illustrates at least the lower bound of effort that will be required in the coming decades.

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      8 months ago

      Oh boy… you called taxation “some rube goldberg shit” but recommend a book that presents a global carbon reward system as something we need. The cognitive dissonance is mind boggling.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t actually think policies from The Ministry for the Future are prescriptions for getting us out of this, that’s why I recommended Half Earth Socialism. It does however instill an appropriate sense of urgency and scale in its narrative.