“Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime president.
He asked Americans to sacrifice:
to consume less, take public transit more, value community over material things, and buy bonds to fund domestic energy development, including solar.” newrepublic.com/article/160692…
He asked Americans to sacrifice:
to consume less, take public transit more, value community over material things, and buy bonds to fund domestic energy development, including solar.” newrepublic.com/article/160692…
“From our vantage, this may sound very farsighted and bold.
But any prescient, planet-saving leadership seen shimmering through hindsight is a mirage.
The speech and the panels advanced a program with the narrow goal of energy independence, not decarbonization.”
But any prescient, planet-saving leadership seen shimmering through hindsight is a mirage.
The speech and the panels advanced a program with the narrow goal of energy independence, not decarbonization.”
“Carter wanted to expand and secure the nation’s economic wheel beyond OPEC’s reach, not question it, shrink it, slow it, or “green” it.
“We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias [and] more coal than any nation on earth,” he boasted in the speech.
“We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias [and] more coal than any nation on earth,” he boasted in the speech.
“Kuznets warned that we should never use GDP as a normal measure of economic progress,” because GDP does not distinguish between productive and destructive behavior.
“A measure of an economy’s total consumer and government spending, investments, exports, and imports, it institutionalized the celebration of a soulless and dangerously incomplete ledger.
“If you cut down a forest for timber, GDP goes up,” Hickel writes.
“If you cut down a forest for timber, GDP goes up,” Hickel writes.
“If you extend the working day and push back retirement age, GDP goes up.
If pollution causes hospital visits to rise, GDP goes up.
But GDP includes no cost accounting.
It says nothing about the loss of the forest as a habitat for wildlife, or as a sink for emissions.”
If pollution causes hospital visits to rise, GDP goes up.
But GDP includes no cost accounting.
It says nothing about the loss of the forest as a habitat for wildlife, or as a sink for emissions.”
“GDP also ignores the existence of unpaid labor—like child-rearing or caring for a sick relative—a fact that explains why feminist economists were some of the earliest and most astute critics of the metric.”
“Even if you accept argument that inequality would be best addressed by centuries of trickle-down growth, you keep running up against fact of impossibility.
Even just 1 more century of growth—which has shown no sign of taking a less destructive form—will require multiple earths"
Even just 1 more century of growth—which has shown no sign of taking a less destructive form—will require multiple earths"
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