It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.
If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.
All well and good but the wrong people are in charge and those people and the people that follow them are not simply going to step aside. A realistic policy to deal with that is also needed. I suppose it might be dealt with by education.
No amount of education is going to get them to relinquish power voluntarily. They will use every tactic at their disposal, from propaganda to violence, to cling to it, and we must be prepared to counter that force.
Very correct, and I think that it’s important that we have cohesive, economy wide experts collaborating to work on solutions to all of these issues.
This report will never come to fruition, but it helps to combat the narrative that “all this green leftist shit is just not feasible”. Because it starts to untangle that by demonstrating feasibility and paving the way for discourse that could at least improve the trajectory we are on
In US billionaires also control the education. In Europe it’s not much better.