| renewables become more affordable than coal and nuclear
And yet emissions keep climbing, because capitalism requires growth and demands deregulation.
| Excess energy can be dumped in to carbon sequestration
There is literally no scalable strategy for this, and no serious combination of strategies. Really. Nobody who actually studies this (who's not also trying to profit) thinks there is. Do the math on the world economy continuing to double every <20 years. Or maybe check out the book I shared above, it's really very good.
Also, capitalism is just fine with a shrinking economy, there's depressions and recessions. What does this grand theory say about those?
Throwing around broad terms with shifting meanings, and then changing those meanings around to fit each set of facts about the world, is a crazy way to deal with the world.
> Do the math on the world economy continuing to double every <20 years.
Easy enough, what's the problem. What sort of resource constraint are you thinking we hit? What defines a "dollar" or "doubling"? Based on your descriptions, there's zero chance I will bother to read the book you recommend, because it sounds like it has negative information content.
I mean, come on, what sort of BS statement is "capitalism demands deregulation"?? Capitalism demands regulation through policing. What sort of possible definition of "deregulation" can you ever provide that fits both these situations? The best reflection on your source is that there is some sort of very technical definition where this statement makes sense. But repurposing common words to narrow meanings such that they become jargon, then attempting to use jargon without explaining that there's a difference with the commonly accepted meanings of those words is just a completely unproductive way to communicate to the world.
Emissions are not down -- they've just been exported. The analysis you're looking at is a common one, but it's a shell game. Plenty has been written on this topic and on actual, hard, ecological limits we face; the book I recommended above also covers this.
Capitalism is obviously not "fine" with recessions -- we dump enormous amounts of money into the economy when they occur in an attempt to stimulate it, and inequality tends to widen permanently in the absence of policies to counteract this.
And yet emissions keep climbing, because capitalism requires growth and demands deregulation.
| Excess energy can be dumped in to carbon sequestration
There is literally no scalable strategy for this, and no serious combination of strategies. Really. Nobody who actually studies this (who's not also trying to profit) thinks there is. Do the math on the world economy continuing to double every <20 years. Or maybe check out the book I shared above, it's really very good.