(February 16, 2019 at 11:48 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Why do you think it would be similar, is probably a better question. No one could answer whatever it is you're wondering about unless they knew that?
The Green New Deal is a resolution to figure out how to move to 100% renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions as much as is technologically feasible. Are you concerned that this will lead to famine? That it would shrink the economy? That it will negatively impact local communities? That officials will be executed for spreading misinformation?
What?
Meh. I agree that he is making an assertion posed as a question. But on the other hand, we all know that socialism is a huge part of the Green New Deal. It is not just a plan to go 100% renewable. It is obviously not going to suffer the same sorts of catastrophic failures of the Great Leap Forward, but it could suffer a pretty severe failure nonetheless. I try to imagine what a catastrophic failure of the Green New Deal would look like, and I don't see anything that is all that horrible. I am concerned about some of the modern monetary theory elements of it, that trivializes the national debt. We could be taking a serious risk that we will convert our economy to a very low growth high debt economy in which the Green New Deal has failed, and we have all effectively become serfs. But we are sort of heading in that direction anyway.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
