Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change

[hunter]

3. Nature doesn't care about human ideologies or religions.

When our world civilization hits rock bottom our exploitation of fossil fuels will cease, one way or another. As the paramedics say, the bleeding always stops.

We have all the technologies we need to quit fossil fuels today. The only question is how bad do things have to get before we do?

Rapid restructurings of large economies are not unprecedented. When the U.S.A. finally decided that Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were actual threats to the U.S.A. itself our economy was rapidly transformed into a war machine. With a similar level of effort we could quit fossil fuels, possibly within a period of fifteen years or less.

The triggering event for this transformation will probably be something quite horrible.