Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:08 am
Ifreann wrote:Keira wrote:"I've injected myself with pessimism and now I don't know what to do with myself, so I'll just vent about how capitalism = bad". That's how I read it, at least.
I don't see how socialism would make anything better in any way.
Under socialism, definitionally, the workers control the means of production. So we could just decide to shut down the most polluting industries, without having to deal with any billionaire owners who want to carry on polluting because it's still profitable. You say yourself in a later post that every sane person knows that climate change is real and a problem. So we would expect that the workers at the 100 companies responsible for 70% of all carbon emissions would quickly down tools upon taking control of those companies.
Just because one acknowledges climate change doesn't mean one would be willing to shut down one's place of work. A lot of the working class isn't educated enough to know about the dangers of pollution and climate change. Just look at how angry the north still is about mine closures. The polluting mines would've needed to be closed eventually anyway (that's not why they were closed at the time, I know), but they probably wouldn't have been if it was completely up to the workers.
CoraSpia wrote:For the time being, let's think about what can be done in reality rather than in a made up future world.
Aye!