Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:36:05 +1000
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
It's a shame Noah Smith provides no references to support his arguments
concerning the "failure" of socialism and how capitalism benefits us
all. Have Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland all failed? Has
capitalism brought about wages that keep pace with inflation or even
keeping the vast majority of people above the poverty line?
He doesn't give us any academic support for his position. He has a
limited US view on how economies work. I'm sure his position is one that
will keep him employed by a large corporation of some sort, and make his
parents proud of all the money he is making.
On 18/8/22 11:41, Andrew Pam wrote:
concerning the "failure" of socialism and how capitalism benefits us
all. Have Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland all failed? Has
capitalism brought about wages that keep pace with inflation or even
keeping the vast majority of people above the poverty line?
He doesn't give us any academic support for his position. He has a
limited US view on how economies work. I'm sure his position is one that
will keep him employed by a large corporation of some sort, and make his
parents proud of all the money he is making.
On 18/8/22 11:41, Andrew Pam wrote:
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/how-we-will-fight-climate-change
"It is now abundantly clear that Americans are not going to support a
big government push to rapidly decarbonize the U.S. economy. The
popular urgency simply is not there.
This is very bad, because urgency is very warranted. The devastating
effects of climate change are not something waiting for us in the far
future — they are here today, as the Europeans experiencing a brutal,
unprecedented heat wave can unhappily attest. The fact that Americans
still basically don’t care that much about climate change shows that
the required urgency will not manifest until it’s too late.
Over the past few years, I’ve seen U.S. climate activists and leftists
— who are becoming less distinguishable in terms of rhetoric — make a
mighty attempt to generate a sense of urgency among the American
public (and the global public). I have seen Greta Thunberg thundering
at the UN: “How dare you?! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!”
I have seen climate activists tell everyone to read books like David
Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth. I have seen Sunshine
Movement activists angrily confront Senator Dianne Feinstein in her
office. I have seen Netflix release a disaster movie about how
everyone is complacent about the climate. I have seen climate strikes
and Extinction Rebellions. I have seen any number of articles about
climate anxiety.
None of it has worked. The Green New Deal is so dead that uttering the
name now sounds like a bitter joke. Other ambitious plans like Jay
Inslee’s were ignored. Biden’s more realistic plan was killed by Joe
Manchin. Polls like the one that Wallace-Wells cite above consistently
find that climate change is a relatively low priority for Americans,
even among Democrats.
It is now time to conclude that the “scare people into making a big
push” strategy that climate activists and leftists have been using
over the last few years has decisively, utterly failed. People ought
to be scared. They ought to support a big push. But this is simply a
thing that is not going to happen in the time frame we need it to happen.
So what can we do? Give up and sit around all day feeling a gnawing
certainty in the pits of our stomachs that the planet is as good as
cooked and there’s no reason to go on? You can go ahead and do that if
you want, but I’ll pass, thanks.
I want to talk about the strategy that I think will be effective
against climate change. But first, this requires talking about the
strategy that has been ineffective, and why it has failed."
Via Future Crunch Jul 25, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-aids-botswana-coal-us-ocean-colombia/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
