Posted on 09/05/2022 6:40:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (Reuters) - Tackling inequality is key to securing the public support needed to overhaul the global economy and reverse climate change, an update to the landmark 50-year-old computer simulation of environmental stress has found.
Based on modelling by MIT scientists of a world destabilised by growing consumption, the 1972 "Limits To Growth" simulation has been attacked as flawed by some but applauded by others as prescient of accelerating planetary stress.
Building off its predecessor, the Earth4All model developed by a cross-discipline team of researchers sought to explore what it would take to increase the wellbeing of humanity during the rest of this century using data from the 1980-2020 period.
Its central conclusion was that, if left unchecked, rising inequality in the next 50 years would leave people less trusting of governments and other institutions, making co-operation to deal with climate change and other threats more difficult.
"When social trust goes down, this limits the speed of public policy action. This translates into how much regulation and subsidies you can do in terms of greening the economy and energy system," study co-author Per Espen Stoknes told Reuters.
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I presume that their solution is coercing Caucasians to contribute cash.
BS, utter and blatant ideological BS.
Shame on MIT.
“Study”, funded by whom?
For the last 30 years, if you wanted a grant, you had to hew to the political “science” (L:ysenko science) of global warming / climate change.
What do you suppose the results of that have been?
The biggest threat to humanity is the people that believe this BS. Climate Cultist are bigger idiots than the covid Cultist.
What if the changing climate is a natural cycle that may last a thousand years, and rather than adapting to survive, we are wasting all of our resources and time trying to stop it? Won’t we look silly?
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
>>This translates into how much regulation and subsidies you can do in terms of greening the economy and energy system<<
IOW people will not be ordered and taxed into total submussion. Sounds like a GREAT outcome to me!
Funny how the keys to “saving the world” are always aligned with Leftist ideology. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Phew, what a rancid steaming pile.
There’s a climate model that takes into account tax rates on the rich, pensions, third world debt? Confidence in government and regulations? Pull the other one, it’s got bells.
Giant Leap? You have got to be kidding. You think they would have distanced themselves more from Mao’s Great Leap debacle.
If anyone has any doubt that environmentalism is socialism, this should allay all doubt.
Tackling inequality is just communism.
You see, the premise of the modern communist movement, including the teaching of CRT and the WEF Great Reset is that until all systems have equal outcomes, they must be inherently flawed and damaging to the people and planet.
They will say that this is why communism/socialism has failed in the past....it did not create equal outcomes for every gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. Therefore, those systems were flawed and run by racists or whatever label they wish to apply.
Of course, there is no way to ensure equal outcomes, but its pursuit is noble and that is why they must be in charge.
More proof that this climate change hoax is all about politics.
I think their climate "modeling" is just a form of scientific masturbation.
Inequality has nothing to do with Climate change. Absolutely nothing.
2-Temperature variation
3-Historical correlation between #1 and #2
4-Inequality
One thing does not belong. Which is it?
Translated
We need socialism to force people to implement Green New Deal and destroy their lives for a hoax.
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