It won’t even hurt the economy though, it will just hurt some specific industries that spend hundreds of billions of dollars to lobby against reforms, rather than simply changing their business strategy to one that doesn’t kill the planet
Yeah totally agree, it’s more of a shitty excuse politicians use. The reality is that it will impact the profits of the oil, gas and coal industries, but the economy as a whole will be much better in the long run once we are less dependent on fossil fuels. It’s such a short sighted outlook.
Well, we also need a lot less cars on the roads and much higher prices for flight tickets, no private jets and cruise ships. It’ll hurt a lot of weird industries, but the alternative is so much worse. Adapt or die
It’s like that old political cartoon, “But what if we make a better world for nothing??”
But rich people’s wealth extraction would suffer in the short term and we can’t have that. Think of the shareholders.
My favorite version of this type of comic is this one
The imaginary numbers demand sacrifice
Why do they even need a fire? Just point the food at the sun
