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In reply to the discussion: $840 billion a yr on military defense-But We Can't Afford more than $2.3 billion for climate crisis? [View all]hunter
(38,472 posts)... and prolong our dependence on fossil fuels.
We could be paying people to experiment with lifestyles having small environmental footprints. Instead we are trashing our deserts with solar crap, trashing our landscapes and seascapes with wind turbine crap, and trashing our environment to obtain the exotic materials electric cars require.
Consumerism got us into this mess, consumerism won't get us out of this mess. Buying an electric car or a giant battery bank for your home isn't going to save the world.
Hah, but can you imagine any politician saying, "Yes, we're going to put a moratorium on the manufacture of all new cars and rebuild our cities so most people don't need them. All you autoworkers will be building public transportation systems and small modular nuclear reactors. All you fossil fuel workers will be closing coal mines, sealing abandoned oil and gas wells, and dismantling fossil fuel power plants."
It is possible. We transformed entire industries in World War II so we could defeat Imperial Japan and the Nazis.
The threats of global warming are just as horrific.
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