‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival (www.theguardian.com)
from ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net to world@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 07:55
https://lemmy.curiana.net/post/637339

It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.

If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.

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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 04 Jun 07:55 next collapse

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TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone on 04 Jun 08:57 next collapse

But how does it preserve shareholder profits?

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today on 04 Jun 10:22 collapse

And some poor CEO really needs a new yacht

Miller@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 09:07 next collapse

All well and good but the wrong people are in charge and those people and the people that follow them are not simply going to step aside. A realistic policy to deal with that is also needed. I suppose it might be dealt with by education.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 04 Jun 09:22 next collapse

In US billionaires also control the education. In Europe it’s not much better.

AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk on 04 Jun 10:14 next collapse

Very correct, and I think that it’s important that we have cohesive, economy wide experts collaborating to work on solutions to all of these issues.

This report will never come to fruition, but it helps to combat the narrative that “all this green leftist shit is just not feasible”. Because it starts to untangle that by demonstrating feasibility and paving the way for discourse that could at least improve the trajectory we are on

Maeve@kbin.earth on 04 Jun 10:26 next collapse

Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE, said: “It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”

grue@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 13:05 collapse

I suppose it might be dealt with by education.

No amount of education is going to get them to relinquish power voluntarily. They will use every tactic at their disposal, from propaganda to violence, to cling to it, and we must be prepared to counter that force.

Maeve@kbin.earth on 04 Jun 10:25 next collapse

The report will be unveiled and discussed at the World Inequality Conference from 4-6 June in Paris, with speakers including Ha-Joon Chang, Jean Drèze, Jayati Ghosh, Mariana Mazzucato, Branko Milanović, Lea Ypi and Gabriel Zucman.

Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE, said: “It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”

laranis@lemmy.zip on 04 Jun 15:38 next collapse

Jesus, while I admire the effort that must be the most frustrating job in the world.

Them: “Here’s the solution to saving humanity and our planet and creating equity and end suffering.”

Our leaders: “No.”

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 04 Jun 15:43 collapse

Our leaders: let me ask my boss

Gates, Bezos and Musk: “No”

Tolc@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 17:45 collapse

communism marxism leninsm

thats the answer, thanks.