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 countrys 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 B24 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 ...
The author really needs thirty days living in some third world slum like Bangladesh or Chad. Drinking dirty water. Living on a near starvation diet with absolutely no medicine. Living without electricity or transportation. And only being able to cook food using animal dung as fuel.
Decarbonize ‘liberals’.
Of this I have no doubt. I also have no doubt this effort would not be sufficient.
Am I the only person who notices this indifference for the lives of others? They propose to turn all of us into slaves to construct their modern, woke version of the pyramids.
Oh, geez. There you go again.
Is there any ill tariffs won't cure? The ***Heartbreak of Psoriasis?*** Bad breath?
Tariffs are very popular in the rest of the world. Only the USA has domestic Free Traitors.
I think the title should be HOW TO DRIVE THE US BACK INTO THE DARK AGES AND INSURE CHINA'S DOMINANCE BY 2035
LOL.
Good Idea!
A bit difficult to beat upwind on the Interstate though...
Not to mention going through the Horse Latitudes.
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