Yeah, IF only the poor stopped polluting we could save everyone.
Billionaire argues that the system that made him rich and caused all of our problems is also the solution to the problems. Right.
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Because he’s been willing to fund a lot of the activist organizations, and nobody else really stepped up
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Steyer is firmly convinced that climate change can be solved within the confines of capitalism. The solutions of the staunch left he describes as “panic.”
He’s wrong. Capitalism’s core principle is to take more from the system than you put in, to get maximum profit from maximally small expense. Slavery is a prime example of capitalism. Monopolies and robber barons are a prime example of capitalism. Maximizing short-term profits over the long-term future of the planet is a prime example of capitalism.
We are panicked, because most of us don’t have thousands of lifetimes worth of money to insulate us from the effects of climate change, and we still see and experience the effects of climate change that Steyer has also seen first hand.
I agree that we need more regulation, but that’s because capitalism is the problem. You certainly can’t incentivize the changes needed with a carrot of money, because the capitalists’ aim is to take the carrot and laugh at you all the way to the bank.
There’s no way to avoid the stick of regulations, but if he wants an economic system that is more likely to promote the broader social good, it’s going to be socialism at a minimum. Until capitalists can demonstrate how their favorite economic system has any mechanism to self-regulate human greed, pointing only to regulation (which comes from legislators who historically can be easily bought by lobbyists) is just an indictment of that system.
Must be nice to be independently wealthy and delusional, but at least he is willing to fund groups who are trying to make a difference in spite of capitalism.
Oh you idiot resource hoarder: capitalism got us here because it values profit over anything else. It cant get us out of a problem that isnt about profit. It can only create more problems with its greed.
It might work if the billionaire class would act in enlightened self interest, like the millionaire Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Carnegies of the 20s and 30s (arguably, and arguably not), but this latest crop of ultra-rich just seem to think “I got mine, now fuck you, I’m going to live in my luxury missile silo bunker when the apocalypse comes”.
