> Likewise support Green New Deal politicians in the US and elsewhere.
If we are really trying to avert climate change, how is spending trillions on labor unions and guaranteed jobs going to help?
If this was the plot of the movie Armageddon, and there was an asteroid hurtling towards earth, would your planned respond spend pages talking about unions, wealth inequality, indigenous people, and guaranteed healthcare, jobs, and housing? If climate change is really imminent and existential threat that requires “war time mobilization” then how can we afford to water down our response with these tangential things?
Under the Green New Deal you’d spend trillions more a year on healthcare, housing, etc. For that money you could buy up the major oil companies like Exxon (market cap $300 billion) and keep the oil in the ground. You could make the US carbon neutral using existing or near-term CO2 recapture technology. You could bankroll India and China to keep their fossil fuels in the ground and build out fully renewable capacity. You could invest in renewables technology, nuclear, carbon capture at the same time. If you sincerely believed that climate change was an existential crisis, why would you divert 90%+ of the force of the “war time mobilization” on social programs?
In my view, the Green new deal has done incalculable damage to the environmental movement. It is a transparent and cynical attempt to piggy-back traditional left wing politics onto the environmental movement, undermining its credibility and seriousness.
The logic behind the GND is simple: if we don’t do something about this, we’re going to be screwed. People don’t want to do anything about it because they’re afraid it will cost jobs. So make a plan that guarantees them jobs if they do something about it.
It’s a political solution to a technical problem. You may not like the politics, but it’s pretty damn logical.
> The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts, according to a Washington Post reporter who attended the meeting for a profile published Wednesday.
> “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” he added.
The question is whether there is a logic to it beyond the pretext that motivated it originally. And I don’t think there is. Protecting jobs from displacement as a result of climate change mitigation efforts makes sense. That could be accomplished for a fraction of the price of offering guaranteed housing, jobs, healthcare, higher education, etc.
We are talking about spending trillions a year on social welfare to get maybe $100 billion (at most?) on climate change mitigation. Is that “pretty damn logical?”?)
I think it’s one solution on the table, and not even one that has the full support of a single party. The others so far seem to be pretty close to a no-op. Be nice to see some other folks try to modulate it and offer a better proposal.
>>> While undoubtedly a lovely sentiment, Jez, making state confiscation threats out loud isn’t great for shifting houses to minted foreigners.
I found this passage very strange. Throughout the article, the author seemed to be advocating the position that most Londoners seem to hold: that houses should be for people to live in, and not for overseas property investors to use as an investment vehicle. So why should anyone be concerned about "shifting houses to minted foreigners"?
Legislation that would stop housing being kept deliberately empty by overseas investors has been shown to be hugely popular with the public – but that's not mentioned by the article, either.
I think he was just pointing out that it is contributing to the uncertainty in the market, and therefore increases the chances of a crash. I didn't read it as a criticism of Corbyn per se.
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Interestingly, your tool claims our website (SSL-terminated at our ELB instance) is still vulnerable; while this other tool (http://possible.lv/tools/hb) claims we are unaffected.
Another, known unpatched, app is reported to be affected by both tools.
Is it possible that FiloSottile/Hearbleed may report false positives?
From what I've learned, it reports back if it gets something, when it should get nothing.
How vulnerable a specific site is depends on luck. Yahoo must have broken a whole bunch of mirrors because total amateurs can send mail.yahoo.com a certain blob of code and it has a good chance of returning a stranger's password.
In the rest of the UK, it's a little more complicated (for now): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#England_and_Wa...