Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
“Arthur C. Clarke in his 1962 book Profiles of the Future imagined “efficient electrical storage”
Better and more efficient batteries is the goal that many technologists are striving to achieve.
Like nuclear fusion it always appears to be frustratingly just one step beyond being achieved.
We do have a difference in approaches. I wonder if they can be reconciled into a message that resonates with the ecologist audience that we are failing to reach and persuade. We need to communicate the urgency before the tipping points are reached and the climate wars and migrant climate refugees becoming a reality that brings down large parts of civilization. But we have to also emphasise the importance that there exists a rational solution – socialism, a steady-state economy that satisfies all reasonable needs and wants of a global population.
The Green New Deal is just a position paper, there is no bill that Congress will vote on, it is a wish list. The Democratic Party has so far even rejected its general tone. 2020 prospective presidents make sympathetic sounds but I am sure it will never be adopted. But it might achieve something, as you suggest.
While climate change should be the priority of all governments, I just don’t recognize it commanding any crucial policy in most governments.