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Tim Coombe's avatar

In principal a wonderful idea, but can you imagine the headline "World governments agree to implement a Global Climate Compensation Fund"?

In Jason Hickel's book or in one of his interviews he describes how the annual net transfer of wealth is something like 2 trillion dollars from global South to global North (or from the Exploited to the Exploiters as Henrik describes them). Maybe something like the GCCF is the way to tackle this..but how to get there? Where are the politicians who would advocate for this?

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were trump, brexit, or la pen rbuked? no, in fact that 38% of the population has doubled down and purges true conservatives, liberals double down on on economic and consumption growth. high fuel prices and politicians seek tax suspension ... no politician would propose a solution that didn't begin with corporate welfare and consumptive growth.

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rationing? social justice demands a system outside of current economic paradigm where there's the accepted usage for creature comforts but zero for luxury consumption and consumerism. over the past 9 podcasts i find myself also drifting toward accelationism, stagflation will erase consumerism. 28:19 "things don't change because people suddenly become more clever, or rational ... it changes because suddenly it's impossible to keep up this conventional wisdom",

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