Simple Solutions To ‘Outsmart’ Climate Change

[@Chazreal]

I seriously doubt we have time for radical moderate political incrementalism, but *that's* what we're settling for.

[@rini6]

Eat (I mean “tax”) the rich.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Tax the rich

[@tradeprosper5002]

I understand your reservations on "degrowth" but we also need to take a position against economists promoting endless growth. We need a plan that works with stable population and consumption.

[@tradeprosper5002]

@@eddenoy321 Demographics are still giving us short term increases, but max population is expected to be less than 10 billion. The developed areas, even China, already have if you don't include immigration. People don't need to be told since it is not affordable for most anymore.

[@Misaka-gt5yj]

Slashing people's SUV tire, burning down Tesla factories in Germany, or gluing yourself to the pavement in the middle of a road in the name of climate activism won't save the world either, but ok.

[@alin81-82]

Totally.

[@MishaFlower]

@@eddenoy321 It really doesn't matter. Most statisticians say that the demographics would max out at 10 billion if the trend. Teen moms are a shrinking percentage, fortunately.

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

@@eddenoy321 as they get wealthier they will have less children as is the case in every society on the planet

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Taxing the rich is cringe EATING the rich tho.... Them's good eatins right there

[@daanestad]

Good chance of radioactive contamination thou

[@richardmaclean4519]

And then? The entertainment industry pollutes for your entertainment purposes.

[@bargdaffy1535]

If you tax Carbon, you are not Taxing "A Molecule" you are Taxing a Commodity, just like Taxing Profits from Pig Belly Sales or Coal or Chicken Breasts. What fossil fuel company does frat boy work for?

[@natethegreatest1000]

The notion that "we shouldn't tax a molecule" is reductive at best, and mantric at worst. We taxed ozone killing molecules during the 90s-00s to fix the hole in the ozone. We taxed pollutants that contributed to acid rain. Did these raise prices for the bottom line? Yeah, but it also created a market for innovation. Those taxes also went to environmental research in those very issues as well.

[@ianaspinall7948]

I do agree to a large extent and using carbon as the neutralbuilding b;ocl of life in terms of thetax policy is this guest using semantics to support his argument. The recovery of the Ozone layer is perhaps the greatest example of us as a spieces listening to our brightest and best and co-operating and working to prevent an envuirnomental disaster. But, it did go beyond taxation and required global and insudtrial co-operation on an international scale as per the montreal protocol. But, yeah I winced at the lack description of a carbon tax and also the lack of pusk back from Emma, reminds me of the ULEZ protesters in the UK, and there is a lot of false flag arguments in that as well.

[@elligilberg1564]

Wealth equity around the planet requires taxing the rich.

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

I think the prerequisite to solve this, the prerequisite to solve virtually all problems we're now facing - we first have to roll back some of this corruption, because as long as the most powerful monied interests run everything, nothing can be solved, and no gains won't just be soon lost. I wish this was hammered as often as is appropriate... Which would mean it was mentioned in every single discussion. It really is the one most important thing. Look at some of represent dot us's earliest messaging, their earliest KZbin videos, and see how they laid this stuff out convincingly in ways that anyone can grasp. The LEFT needs to hammer this message... And realize that this message itself, provides some of the best arguments to vote for DSA candidates and progressives... Once you see how this corruption breaks everything, and your focus is on that, supporting the only players in the game who aren't corrupt is obvious. And those progressives, and leftists, really are the only non-corrupt politicians with a presence in American politics. This really is, just so easily and so obviously, the single most important issue - we have to focus on the corruption, we have to fix it, as far as it can be fixed. Whether you're fixated on climate or human rights issues or whatever else, you will never see any lasting improvement, until you first work on this.

[@mudmudmudmudmud7605]

I totally agree with you but you have to go deeper than that. It's obvious to me and you who might be the people we should put in power to vote for but it's not obvious to most people. They are hit with so much propaganda that they'll vote against their own interests just to own the libs. This propaganda has so much money behind that it's everywhere and they are the ones hammering their bad faith message. Not only is it everywhere it's also catered to people to make them believe it whole heartedly so much so they believe to go against the propaganda is a bad thing they have to fight (vote against). They probably have data collection and think tanks to find out how to convince people to vote against their own interests. See what makes people tick and work off of that. So I do agree with you but you also need to know how to hammer that message. You have to make the people want to listen to it and not just poopoo it once they hear keywords or phrases that make them turn off. Basically deprogram them to just listen to the message with an open mind. One way is to get our own data and think tanks to know what works and how to spread the message and not just geared to the choir. The problem with that it's going to take money from people that really have no financial gain to give up that money.

[@uncomfortabletruth5915]

Corruption has a hedge, the discord and polarization, it’s not a coincidence that the country is divided at a time where inequality is So prevalent. It’s no coincidence how the media focuses on wedge issues to distract us. We are living in a matrix of manipulation. Unfortunately, people are easily manipulated and even when they fully understand the causality, the still stumble into the same distractions.

[@crobinson2624]

I believe we should be implementing measures to reduce and mitigate environmental disasters as well as reduce the effects of climate change as I don’t have confidence that the worst of the effects of CC can be avoided now. We must prepare for the worst.

[@uncomfortabletruth5915]

We All Going To Be On Our Own…prepare

[@Ianpact]

Thank you, Matt Huber and Emma.

[@gammaman6988]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

Is taxing pollution at all a bad idea?

[@andrewchoi5808]

Solve climate change and global warming once again

[@marcingolab6227]

Have you ever thought about including any information about your guests, if not in the title then at least in the description? I mean, come on.

[@CanadianSpiceKing]

Mentioning "PMC class" that many times is a red flag.

[@kikapuneniya3827]

We need to start steering away from crude oil as well

[@cesarino72]

Excellent guest and excellent interview Emma. Thank you both.

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

Someone has to explain how a carbon tax will physically reduce 421ppm Co2 down to pre-industrial levels. Does the atmosphere take cash bribes to balance itself now?

[@kevincrady2831]

The theory is that if it is expensive to emit CO2, then The Free Market (profits be upon its Invisible Hand) will save us by its magic.

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

@@kevincrady2831 What's 'expensive' to multi-billion dollar oil corporations that receive tax-payer funded corporate welfare? Fines for oil spills have ever stopped more oil spills? I didn't see Exxon go out of business after Valdez....they made a profit from it and continue to destroy our planet, unabated, for decades.

[@torsteinholen14]

@@kevincrady2831 its mysterius and infinite wisdom

[@paulstewart6293]

We have to persuadé people their of their real importance in life. Once they have understood, its only by collective action things can change. Billionaires all work together,

[@jake______]

Carbon tax and dividend is a progressive tax and redistributive spending policy

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

Nationalize Energy

[@___.51]

Simple solution: Demolish the suburbs, grow food locally, electric public transit, fewer consumer goods, higher quality consumer goods.

[@TheBlazersfan22]

We need to invest in the carbon capture tech in squamish b.c . If we can get tons of carbon capture machines out all across the world. We can at least mair progress.

[@TheBlazersfan22]

Make some progress*

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

N U C L E A R ENERGY

[@Human_Herbivore]

If the conversation of the climate crisis does not have animal agriculture front and centre then it is not a serious discussion. The advantage of not supporting animal agriculture is that each of us can choose that. We don't have to wait for government and big business and clear, if we do, nothing will be done. It is far harder to stop using petrol than it is to not consume meat, dairy and eggs.

[@arielmarquis3100]

We should stop all industrial scale agriculture. How does transforming a field into a mono culture help the biodiversity of that field. What happens to the habitat of the animals displaced.

[@Human_Herbivore]

@@arielmarquis3100monoculture is generally crops we grow to feed farm animals. Consider how much 8 billion humans eat versus at least ten times as many farmed animals. if we all switched to a plant based diet we'd save 83% of current farm land. That could then all be returned to the wild.

[@arielmarquis3100]

@@Human_Herbivore I think people should grow their own food. No more neadless transportation packaging and waste and you can eat fresh. Stop living in cities as it is unsustainable. Also no more pets, big dogs pollute as much in emmissions as a suv.

[@Human_Herbivore]

@@arielmarquis3100 what about the disabled, aged or those who for some other reason can't?

[@arielmarquis3100]

@@Human_Herbivore familly and community just like in the olden days, governments and corporate lobbying put us in this mess we cannot expect them to fix it

[@Zeitgeistboxee]

don't look up.

[@norikadolmy7274]

We should just tax the oil and gas companies out of existence and use that to fund green energy subsidies etc.,

[@mve6182]

If you tax a company out of existence, wouldn't that mean this company will then no longer pay taxes?? So how would you use these non-existing taxes to fund green energy?

[@ivandafoe5451]

@@mve6182 You do it slowly as the oil industry winds down. Instead of your lame "gotcha" questions, how about thinking some of these things through a bit?

[@mve6182]

@@ivandafoe5451 So you heavily tax fossil fuels, increasing energy prices and fuel prices. Wouldn't that hurt the poor people the most, since they spend the highest percentage of their income on energy and also cannot afford an electric vehicle (for example)? I'm asking this question, because the video is all about the link between socialism and mitigating climate change...

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

@@mve6182 if you take a high school physics class then you'll learn that energy can be converted between different forms and that all of it is ultimately sourced from the Sun anyways. The fact that we're too lazy to accomplish things without polluting is a failure of your knowledge and imagination

[@mve6182]

@@TwoForFlinchin1 How is that relevant to the question I asked??

[@sonle7019]

yep taxing the rich wont work

[@metacube9913]

Shitting on carbon tax is a dumb take tho

[@dejayrezme8617]

We'd need to completely redesign how our industrial society produces goods and services. It's practically impossible. You'd need a planned economy and planned society even if you had that it's too late to come up with a plan now. Just look around you and list all the things that you need to live right now and then look up how they are produced. What the problems are with getting that to zero carbon. Look at patents that forbid a universal change. Think of the trillions of investments in the corporations producing all this shit. Most people don't realize what a monumental task this is. It's over. Just plan for +8C global warming. Buy property in northern latitudes, mine the southern borders and let the population adjust according to the free market lol /s

[@billybigwig1154]

Left is best

[@mve6182]

So you believe socialism will solve climate change??

[@ivandafoe5451]

It's a start...a way of reducing the damages caused from unfettered capitalism.

[@mve6182]

@@ivandafoe5451 It's not a start to mitigating climate change, because the climate doesn't care about economics, taxes or social justice.

[@robertpayne4033]

What is the worst climate change? Actual examples would be most appreciated.

[@patrickboucher2907]

Our, US, tax struchture, seems to give tax breaks to the rich, the poor don’t have enough taxable income which means the middle class supports most of the infrastructure. Flat tax? 10%. Across the board. Rich, middle and poor. Or 5%. Tax form is vastly simpler. Income=xxxxxxx -5%=xxxx=taxes

[@happyspork]

I’m pretty sure that would drastically reduce tax revenue. The middle class pays way more than that now, and the poor often pay less than that (or none). But the rich often aren’t paying any tax at all, and having a flat tax wouldn’t necessarily change that, because their money doesn’t come from regular income, it comes from dividends, capital gains, etc. And often, they can borrow against their assets to avoid even realizing the capital gains at all.

[@twincast2005]

A flat tax is the corporatist libertarians' wet dream. No, thank you. It sounds fair, sure, but it is not. Because on someone earning over USD 100,000 per month, a tax of 5%, 10%, or even 20% has no palpable impact on their luxurious standards of living, whereas on someone earning under USD 1,000 per month, the same tax rates make the difference in whether they can put food on the table. And that's not even taking the predatory US "healthcare" industry into consideration. Urgent things to do tax-wise, are closing the legal loopholes that allow corporations and billionaires to pay next to nothing - and disturbingly often even literally less than nothing - in taxes, funding the IRS to go after big targets, and undoing GOP tax cuts.

[@MishaFlower]

Corporate wet-dream.

[@ceraphi717]

at a certain point the climate change arguments need to turn from stopping actively demolishing the environment to actively terraforming earth back to a more habitable range for humans and our era's other species. if the trees of the carboniferous could cause enough climate change to cause a major extinction, we as science animals can Notice we're doing the same and counteract our actions

[@richardmaclean4519]

The entertainment industry pollutes for your entertainment purposes.

[@jl8942]

All industry pollutes for human purposes... That's the whole problem. Another stupid comment from a stupid person.

[@bananawammabama]

What are you including in this broad entertainment topic? Actors? Sports? Music? Are you trying to distract from oil, gas, and factories?