Posted on 08/10/2020 9:50:04 PM PDT by rktman
In the runup to World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted the entire US economy in an effort to scale up production of war material. All of the country’s resources were bent to the task. In 1939, the US had 1,700 aircraft; in 1945, it had 300,000 military aircraft and 18,500 B–24 bombers.
By the time the war was won, the economy was up and humming with a massively expanded workforce (drawing in women and African Americans) and turbocharged productive capacity. Investments made during the war mobilization yielded a robust middle class and decades of sustained, broadly shared prosperity.
A similar mobilization will be necessary for the US to decarbonize its economy fast enough to avert the worst of climate change. To do its part in limiting global temperature rise to between 1.5° and 2° Celsius, the US must reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. To achieve this, the full resources of the US economy must be bent toward manufacturing the needed clean-energy technology and infrastructure.
FDR began with two questions. First, he asked not what was politically feasible but what was necessary to win the war. He also asked not how much funding was available in the federal budget but how much productive capacity was available in the economy — what was possible.
Saul Griffith is trying to answer those same questions on climate change: what is necessary, given the trajectory of global warming, and what is possible, given the resources in the US economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
VERY TRUE
Bears Repeating!
What do I put in the Hemi?
Crisco??
Oh, shit...who left the cage door open again??
The operation where they cut off the top of Dave Roberts’ skull, scooped out his brains, and then shat in the newly-empty space before sewing it up must have been cringe-worthy to watch....
Dave Roberts would soil himself if someone filled his gas tank with corn syrup...
LOL, I’d stick that out the window to charge “stuff”
It’d be like a dawg having movin’ fun.
[I’ll stipulate that having some eye salve is warranted should one try to emulate the dog on the train [[and other vehicles.... [Because personal experience....]]
It’s all about the BTUs. Oil / Natural Gas are Kings.
And roads. and about 6500 other products from petroleum processing. No oil, no paved roads. No paint. No lubricants. No insulation. And so on...
There’s no way to accomplish a rapid energy transition with market-based policies
The “transformation” will be accomplished through Soviet-style five-year plans. Which is, of course, the point of all this.
Vox Sox!
Well first of all, anyone who refers to petroleum as a “fossil fuel” is a flaming moron. The unwashed have no idea how many products rely on petroleum.
vox.com...that’s all I need to know.
In a pinch, we could always go back whale oil.
A similar effort, huh? Does this idiot author even begin to comprehend the enormous economic sacrifices most US families made as part of the war effort? And he wants to try to implement & sustain that for 30 years? OMG!
Who needs petroleum? All those electric cars will be powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
Absolutely correct. We were left with massive manufacturing capability, desperate need outside the US, and virtually no competition.
I suppose that if we could ward off the “incoming” easily, we could bomb most of the rest of the world to hell, and it’d all work again...
Let's tweak that a little - if we could bomb most of China, then there would be little "incoming" while the rest of the world would clamor for our goods.
I’m not reading Vox.
Is there anything in the article about replacements for diesel fuel, Jet A, and motor oil? That would be fun.
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