Do you see to what oversimplification leads?
Yes "the great reset" indeed is an ad hoc program, how to get back to some form of "before crisis levels" economic activity. Yes, many people are attaching concepts like sustainability, because basically all the 'change ideology' out there wants to take part in the rebuilding efforts, and yes, partly because you cant rebuild the same as before.Yes, there are technocratic efforts for more metering, because thats always what technocrats would demand (think of any engineer, really..
) but in terms of "everything gets rationed" - no, just one very important resource. (Driving, flying - maybe, when you can wash your clothes..
Depends... (On what trajectory people are operating on in terms of climate goals.))
So you are not wrong in the details, but probably in the overall meaning you are constructing from it.
Because you are leaving out other details, like - Covid being counterproductive from a "everything gets rationed" stance, because it produces pushback. People become sick and tired of being locked down. All of a sudden the aspects of social compatibility of measures are much more in the forefront, than even a year ago - people simply are afraid of cutting down too harshly, because they expect larger pushback. You could argue that it needed something like Covid for people to imagine changing routines at all, but thats not a very convincing argument at face value - and if you then propose, that everything was produced by some overarching all knowing entity, that wanted to manipulate word politics -- judging from whats come from it, its still a very bad plan. 4-8 Mio people are dead, the virus is anything but under control (wait for next winter..
), CO2 emissions werent reduced by that much, processes that lead to much larger disruption (automatisation, digitisation) were fasttracked, ...
And maybe - maybe, everyone became a little more rational in terms of demands - but even that lead more to a nationalistic trend, then to the opposite. (Not that countries would pivot to national economies again, but maybe make themselfs a little more resistent to supply chain shocks):
And now let me tell you another story.
One where political and societal changes because of climate related issues were always coming. For the US indeed its a question of "now" or "in fifty years", but for most other countries it isnt. One where technocrats would always try to get things metered more, no matter what. And one where the most impactful result of Covid maybe was to increase spending limits (national debt), in national budgets all over the world. (If Biden gets his "investment trillion", still is far from certain and probably not very likely - but in general, he will be allowed to spend more.). All the other stuff mostly is jumpchange... At least after the first year, because again Covid is far from contained.
If you are worried, that liberalism is a thing of the past - yes currently in germany there is a discussion, if the supreme court was allowed to extend the concept of liberty to further generations, and demand restrictions in behavior, based on that behavior limiting the liberty of future generations. In germany it did.
Yet at the same time, its the (globalized elite - and thereby the) liberals, that are pushing that agenda most. Arguably, because they are afraid of the pushback they see from what they have created over time, without ever looking at what it produced in their 'national economies' - partly because they start to see climate change as a risk profile in itself, that they would have to address. And yes most of the stuff thats promoted there, are empty promises, to look good in front of people. Or the bare minimum, in terms of a global minimum tax, from which Amazon then is exempt again, because it promotes itself as a growth engine, that is always investing...
If you want to go into more detail - I can show you an entry point. I'm not sure If I'll be participating this year - I'm not even sure what a 'digital ticket' costs currently - but if you want to you can at least watch and participate in one of the conferences, where those topics and the actual action plans are discussed for yourself - see what people are doing. At least in europe.
This years EFA registration started yesterday.
Registration Link:
https://2021.alpbach.org/
And yes, some of that is BS - I can tell you now, for certain, that to listen to the opinion of the Vice President of the Club of Rome is a waste of time, or that "using CO2 reduction as an opportunity for growth" is almost entirely BS - and even in the best case, leads to selling people virtual dreams, because they wont be able to afford real ones.
But at least you are not sticking at the 'they are taking liberalism away' and it was a masterplan all along level. Because most certainly, no it wasnt - its more of a sh*t happens, then noone has a plan, but everyone has their vision kind of thing. Promise.
And if you cant, or dont want to - here you can watch this:
Mazzucato is talking again.
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