See, I think capitalism can work, we just need way more controls
But that’s literally the problem right there. We don’t lack control because there isn’t enough scientific knowledge or because the people naturally oppose this control. We don’t and we won’t have control because the capitalists, who happen to be in power, profit more from fossil fuels whose supply they can control than from renewables which are endless and affordable.
If you want an example of somewhere where there is this control, I can point you towards China, the manufacturer of some 95% of the world’s supply of photovoltaic modules and the spearhead of electrification. In China it’s not capitalists in power, it’s the people through their communist party, and this results in, well, actual policy.
Your comment, to me, reads like “we don’t need to abolish absolutist monarchy, we just need controls on the rights of the serfs”. Like, it’s literally the system preventing these controls, and once abolished, the problems sort themselves out rather automatically.
But that’s literally the problem right there. We don’t lack control because there isn’t enough scientific knowledge or because the people naturally oppose this control. We don’t and we won’t have control because the capitalists, who happen to be in power, profit more from fossil fuels whose supply they can control than from renewables which are endless and affordable.
If you want an example of somewhere where there is this control, I can point you towards China, the manufacturer of some 95% of the world’s supply of photovoltaic modules and the spearhead of electrification. In China it’s not capitalists in power, it’s the people through their communist party, and this results in, well, actual policy.
Your comment, to me, reads like “we don’t need to abolish absolutist monarchy, we just need controls on the rights of the serfs”. Like, it’s literally the system preventing these controls, and once abolished, the problems sort themselves out rather automatically.