So while you & I might think its necessary to speed up the Green Transition & enhance/accelerate measures to reduce emissions, Shell's shareholders disagree.
The firm has just sought & obtained agreement from investors to slow down its measures to mitigate its environmental impact & reduce progress towards its own (already weak) climate targets.
More reason(s) the fossil fuels sector cannot really be central to climate response(s).
There is a different level of action to be had. Best of all local, but also necessary to drive large scale changes. Even as the KSA tries to push Africa’s economies into the hydrocarbon and car-centric pathway
The US housing crisis is the end stage of a mortgage industry engineered to subsidize suburbia. Banks were fashioned into home loan factories via mortgage structure and secondary lending market, which allowed them to flip loans. That financed another engineered change: top down urban planning of suburbia, where those, work and shopping were separated and compartmentalized to foster industrial construction. It allowed the US economy to transition from a war economy.
It powered the golden era of the US, but it never was sustainable. Moreover that industrial sized finance is now wholly unfit for purpose, of today’s need.
Now “micro” finance is needed to fund urban greening, integrating cities and ecology and ecological restoration, as well as solving housing crisis. We need a wholly new engineered financial system to do so because the existing is not financially viable with that loan structure.
@Npars01@GhostOnTheHalfShell@ChrisMayLA6 And the women who worked in the factories and held traditional male jobs during WWII? They were forced back into the kitchen as soon as the war ended and the men came home. That's what the "Christians" want America to return to.
The only reason there was a Golden Age in post WWII US economy was because the rest of the world's manufacturing capability was destroyed. By the 1970s Japan and other recovering Asian economies began to eat America's breakfast.
And a lot of the services that were in place to boost wartime production were dismantled.
On the west coast, the Kaiser shipyards had free daycare centers that operated 24/7, so parents could work graveyard and swing shifts. And they were high quality programs.
@Hey_Beth@pete@Mary625@KimSJ@GhostOnTheHalfShell@Npars01@ChrisMayLA6 And the public transit networks that efficiently brought wartime workers to and from their jobs also got dismantled, indirectly by gas,auto and tire companies. And also through the construction of what soon became freeways and the interstate highway network. That also indirectly forced many women back into the home.
Yep. The Trad Wife videos showing a SAHM's days gardening and crafting are really disingenuous. These are influencers who are selling a false narrative.
@Npars01@ChrisMayLA6 Stopping subsidies for fossil fuels might be a good place to start. It would help level the playing field. It might take a long time though, so we should get started with other things too.
We need a general strike. None of what you listed will work unless we take some control. Obviously, in this instance, the US can't vote this in. As long as there's money in politics big oil wins
A carbon tax, returned to each resident as a monthly "dividend", with the tax rising each year. Starting say at $30/tonne, rising by $10 a year until it reaches $150/tonne.
The price system is very good at allocating resources. Companies and consumers would adjust their behaviour and reduce carbon emissions/consumption.