That's really easy actually. I live in the United States, and work two freakin jobs, so naturally I don't have any money, thanks to elitist billionaires hoarding all the money.
I hate the framing of this statement because it implies that we can’t have both a good environment and a good economy. We can absolutely have both, we don’t have to pick and choose
Simple question people. Do you want our species to go on? If not just keep doing what you are doing. If you want a world for your children get to freaking work on saving it.
There's an obvious corollary here: The economy should be more important than the environment only to those who can hold their breath while counting their money.
Not really. Who is going to pay for the ecological disasters? Not the rich. They can shelter themselves from the effects for way longer than the rest of us.
I want to make a cryptocurrency that stamps an environmental impact verifier on each unit in the blockchain. Trades would modify each transaction identifier so that environmentally beneficial economic activity increased their value.
Australian summer 2025
Record breaking Floods in north east
Heatwaves across the continent from West to East
Wildfires in Grampians and Tasmania
Cyclone off north west
Thunderstorms intensity
We are the first generation that is affected by climate change and the last generation that can do something about it. How will we explain to future generations that it was good for the economy when they can't farm the land, breathe the air, or drink the water. That's what I want to know.
I wonder every time I go grocery shopping: How can the earth keep supporting all of this abundance and variety of fruits, vegetables, grains and meats and yet we treat it as our personal toilet?
It can’t. E.g. we’re levelling more rainforest to grow soya to feed cattle because we’ve exhausted the growing capacity of soil in the last bit of rainforest we levelled to grow soya.
Although research suggests concern for the environment increases with economic prosperity. This is why countries like the US spend a lot of time thinking about the environment while a country like India or China spends much less time on it
All these motivational phrases are, I would say... Idiotic. Like I can hold my breath for at least 3 minutes, enough to count 180 10K$ bricks. That will do it for me.
We certainly need to be vigilant. But, the last time around he may not have regulated to your/our satisfaction and appointed a thief, he did not deep six the EPA. He actually did something smart. He used the EPA as a “jobs” program and focused on Super Fund clean up. That’s not terrible.
Thusly, try enjoying a sunny day w an empty belly… empty point just to stir the water
How about we create an economy that thrives w ecological incentive instead of arguing empty rhetoric?
If Congress does not uphold their oaths to protect and defend the US Constitution today, I ask that you join me in an ACLU lawsuit vs US Congress, Trump Administration, J D Vance, Elon Musk, the Republican Party, et al for violating the US Constitution, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
People who think the economy and environment are separate don't know what an economy is. Allowing externalities in your economic measures is like ignoring half of a math equation, and we've been doing that for far, far too long.
The very oxygen we 'arrogantly breathe' for "free" is the last holy grail of the "free market economy" oligarchy and their lap politicians & jurists. Dreams of monetizing & monopolizing the air, play on a loop in their greedy little heads.
ExxonMobile has been doing that for years. They spent in 2019 $9.75M lobbying Congress who in 2021 "allocated" $12B from DOE for "carbon research" so that they can get these subsides we all can't breath as they count "our" money. Now, Dump has received billions from these lecherous thieves...breath?
To paraphrase Freewheeling Franklin of the Fab Freak Brothers…, “air will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no air”.
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it would be something
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it boils down to a credit score
- Me
Record breaking Floods in north east
Heatwaves across the continent from West to East
Wildfires in Grampians and Tasmania
Cyclone off north west
Thunderstorms intensity
Transition to renewables should not be contested
This doesn’t end well.
Thank you.
No environment = no food
Economics is our weak attempt to monetize it!
How about we create an economy that thrives w ecological incentive instead of arguing empty rhetoric?
The richer you are the more inoculated you are from all the environmental problems.
As your favourite authors to do the same.
And of course, where possible, buy ebooks.
Aks your favourite authors to do the same - eg fund the planting of a new tress for every one sacrificed.....