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Mulva posted:smart words We wish climate change would be abrupt or threatening enough to upset the status quo, and that the lower class could force structural change to undo it. In reality, the ruling class have already made plans to insulate themselves from it and business has already planned to make money from it. From policy makers, climate change won't be significantly opposed, let alone solved. As being somewhat predictable (if with a huge margin of error), it is already priced into the economy. The best we can expect is bottle recycling and paper straw measures. Real estate companies buy the high ground expecting and needing the low ground to flood to make the profit. An international migrant crises is an excellent opportunity to admit desperate people, as indentured workers. High food prices will only affect the poor, and they'll be even more afraid to lose their jobs. TVs are scarce? Speculators already knew they would be and are making a killing. Ice gone? Free shipping! Any volatility or crisis that seems bad to a poor is a wonderful opportunity for the rich. The poor can only push back with violence, but this also gets more difficult as power structures get taller and more entrenched. You can't go to your owner's house and burn it anymore. You have 1,000 owners all over the world and they are protected by police, and the police are increasingly software systems and robots. Climate change will happen. Any action to slow it will be merely to prevent total societal collapse and extract maximum value. It's reassuring that at least the system won't try to completely destroy the planet. Preen Dog fucked around with this message at 18:50 on May 16, 2021 |
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