I could not agree more and I'm thankful someone else out there feels the same way I do. As a historian who has spent a lot of time studying societies that break and collapse quickly, it couldn't be more evident to me that the scale of the change we need, and the very short time we have to implement it, are completely excluded from consideration by the fairy tale so-called solutions. A circular economy and a carbon tax are great ideas...if we had 50 years to implement them. We don't have 50 years. We have 5 years. Why doesn't anyone understand this?
Well no, I don't completely agree. Not all the things you list here are "fairy tales", some of them are in fact much needed sea changes. Jason Hickel and George Monbiot will tell you that unregulated capitalism and unrestrained consumption are destroying the planet. So what do we need to replace capitalism with? We need to envision a replacement for the culture that has brought us to the edge of the precipice. And that's why the work of economists like Kate Raworth on circular/doughnut economies is vital, as Hickel and Monbiot would agree.
I could not agree more and I'm thankful someone else out there feels the same way I do. As a historian who has spent a lot of time studying societies that break and collapse quickly, it couldn't be more evident to me that the scale of the change we need, and the very short time we have to implement it, are completely excluded from consideration by the fairy tale so-called solutions. A circular economy and a carbon tax are great ideas...if we had 50 years to implement them. We don't have 50 years. We have 5 years. Why doesn't anyone understand this?
Well no, I don't completely agree. Not all the things you list here are "fairy tales", some of them are in fact much needed sea changes. Jason Hickel and George Monbiot will tell you that unregulated capitalism and unrestrained consumption are destroying the planet. So what do we need to replace capitalism with? We need to envision a replacement for the culture that has brought us to the edge of the precipice. And that's why the work of economists like Kate Raworth on circular/doughnut economies is vital, as Hickel and Monbiot would agree.