points by thenewnewguy 1 day ago | 0 comments
I'm not sure why you think my solution would be blindly hoping? We change things in modern society with laws (and enforcement for those laws).
For example, many countries are already passing laws to limit the sale of new ICE vehicles and/or to provide incentives to own electric vehicles. And these laws are effective - we can track new vehicle sales and see that we are tending in a positive direction.
[–] throwaway27448 1 day ago
Well pretending like capital isn't the root cause seems pretty confusing
[–] rcxdude 22 hours ago
You can blame capitalism perhaps (slightly debatable, TBH), but capital is just a component of that whole system (also, on the whole, not actually situated within board members of large companies. Those people are generally the representatives of capital).
[–] throwaway27448 21 hours ago
Capital is a monosemous term. Capitalism is polysemous. I used precisely the word I intended to.
Laws are the end of the political process, not the beginning.
Case in point, gas taxes just make people grumble and not necessarily switch to electric cars.
You know what doesn't make people grumble? Cheap solar panels / cheap cars that are the result of planned investment on a continent scale, funded by the government through both research and investment grants.
Money is power, and power is political. Passing laws without changing economic policies is how a country goes to irrelevance.
In the modern age one needs a long term investment plan. Without it, the entrenched powers (big oil, etc) exert their enormous influence to keep a country backwards. You need to fight capital power with capital power.