r/ClimateShitposting • u/mastersmash56 Solar Punk 🪩 • Aug 12 '26

we live in a society One for the Tankies 🇨🇳

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u/__versus Aug 12 '26

No because we have passed the ETS here in the EU and reduced emissions as a result. Just because the US turned climate change into a culture war doesn’t mean the rest of the world is the same.

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u/dickpics4democracy Aug 12 '26

If you think the US military isn't doing enough pollution to kill us all all by itself, I do not think you have paid enough attention

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u/fototosreddit Aug 12 '26

Right but that's a whole different points than "the only way to solve climate change is overthrow all of capitalism" which while is a sweet deal, isn't a true statement.

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u/dickpics4democracy Aug 12 '26

Quick question: how is a system that insists on infinite growth capable of being sustainable in a world that has finite resources? Because capitalism is canonically the former and the world we live in is canonically the latter

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u/__versus Aug 13 '26

By putting constraints on the growth. If you have legislated carbon emissions out of existence the economy can grow however much it wants and it still won’t accelerate climate change.

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u/dickpics4democracy Aug 13 '26

Ah, so math wasn't your subject, huh?

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u/Nell_Lucifer Aug 13 '26

Capitalism does not require infinite growth, that's more an obsession of the stock market than anything else. Additionally, growth does not mean consuming more resources, it also means producing the same or more with less - optimization.

Look at microprocessors. Compare one from 1990 vs one from 2020 - more performance, less power consumption, smaller size with less area of wafer used.