AOC's Chief-of-Staff says the Green New Deal was about restructuring the economy - not combating AGW

[mr_lebowski]

64. If the economy is 100% reliant on perpetual GROWTH, that requires both more and more energy

and more and more consumers. Both of which are the opposite of what needs to happen if we're going to successfully fight ACC.

The fact that the economy is currently debt-based makes it reliant on perpetual growth to function. Money is 'lent into existence', you see? And that is done based on the idea that the economy as a whole WILL expand. Otherwise, it's not logical to 'print more money' via loans/debt. A contracting economy would necessitate less loans, otherwise, defaults and inflation would explode.

I didn't say 'I have the alternative', but what I AM saying is that it's absolute folly to think that the economic paradigm of perpetual growth that BROUGHT US HERE, to the brink of disaster ... is likely to turn around and magically provide 'the solution'.

The world is going to have to 'tighten it's belt' and accept 'negative growth' (both economically, and population-wise) for a period of DECADES in order to have ANY chance of averting climate catastrophe. At this point, we need to divert massive resources away from production of 'consumer products' and instead apply them towards 'infrastructure' changes ... in order to get anywhere near what 'we need to do'.

Quite frankly I believe a command-and-control 'one world government' is the only viable solution available at this late juncture ... simply put, we 'waited way too long', and allowed our population to explode far too much over the past 40 years since we were first made aware of the potential for this problem. On top of it, we continued to expand our reliance on fossil-fuels instead of doing the opposite as we should have. Had we started 'back then', it might be different.

Laissez-Faire Debt/Growth-based Capitalism and the inherent 'consumerism' it engendered is either sharply curtailed, or we absolutely wreck the environment.

OR ... 3-4 billion people die by some means ... disease, war, starvation, something. Which will involved a forced, massive 'economic contraction', accomplishing a similar feat.