"Fundamentally, the economists have totally misrepresented the science and ignored it where it contradicts their bias that climate change is not a big deal because, in their opinion, capitalism can handle anything," —incredibly important warning by @ProfSteveKeen 
“the repercussions of climate change were foretold in the 1972 publication “The Limits to Growth” — a divisive report on the destructive consequences of global expansion — but economists then and since failed to heed its warnings, preferring instead to rely on market mechanisms.”
“I think we should throw the economists completely out of this discussion and sit the politicians down with the scientists and say these are the potential outcomes of that much of a change to the biosphere; we are toying with forces far in excess of ones we can actually address,”
Incredible that only a few economists are speaking out: cnbc.com/2021/05/24/war…
Background, because these questions are 50 years old, and the key decisions were taken ~15 years ago: we need to stop being naive, if we care for futures worth living even just for ourselves.
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1328334945199288327?s=20
We face a simple choice: recognize the institutional dysfunction we normalized over the past 50 years, and maintain some hope for change; or face dark decades in the near future. It’d rather go with honesty than failure by design. @SteB777 thread:
https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1396750151113392131
Important addition by @w_knorr: this is a critical, well-defined problem. I struggle to explain why it's not receiving wide attention across all disciplines—but most directly: in climate science, Earth System Science & the humanities
https://twitter.com/w_knorr/status/1396777061939924992?s=20
Worth sharing: @gelderon52 wrote this good blog post on Nordhaus' critique of "measurement without data." Stunning to see scientists ignore these flaws year after year. Dear all, if we don't speak up, who will?
No one else; else they would have, long ago! cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-ec…
No one else; else they would have, long ago! cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-ec…
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