Compare this with the reference in @Kimmerer2013 about responsibility to the tree and not wasting paper: https://hypothes.is/a/pvQ_4ofxEe-NfSOv5wMFGw

where is the balance?

Seit dem Pariser Abkommen finanzierten die 60 größten Banken 425 fossile Großprojekte - sogenannte carbon bombs mit einem zu erwartenden CO2-Ausstoß von jeweils über einer Gigatonne - mit insgesamt 1,8 Billionen Dollar. Der Standard-Artikel geht auf ein Projekt zurück, bei dem Daten des Carbon Bombs-Projekts, des Global Energy Monitor und von Banking on Climate Chaos ausgewertet und visualisiert werden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193065/billionenkredite-fuer-fossile-grossprojekte-wie-banken-die-klimakrise-mitfinanzieren

Bericht/Visualisierung: https://www.carbonbombs.org/

• for: stats - oil and gas - steep drop in revenues of fossil fuel producer economies

• stats: oil and gas - steep drop in revenues of fossil fuel reliant economies

  • per capita net income from oil and natural gas among producer economies will be 60% lower in 2030 in a 1.5 °C scenario.relative to revenues between 2010 and 2022.

• question

  • many producer economies are not diversifying into clean energy fast enough to compensate for these steep revenue drops

Food for thought.

How do companies that produce goods (light notebooks and graph paper) turn a profit? (For either of the two aforementioned examples, anyone can make their own from possibly cheaper primitives. Making graph paper, for example, is just putting lines on paper.)

Those goods being disposable and tangibly/temporally "rivalrous" in the physical world is one part of it, but it's not everything. People pay for convenience. (Look to e.g. paid Netflix subscriptions versus just pirating the stuff.) "Buy this ready-to-consume ebook" is one example of potentially profitable convenience that has made at least some inroads with the general public. Why shouldn't "buy this ready-to-use template" belong to the same set? Yeah, you could make your own, but this is graph paper.

While we've generally moved beyond chattel slavery, I'm struck by the phrase frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture. Though we don't have slavery, is American culture all-too captured by the idea of frenzied capitalism to the tune that the average American (the 99%) is a serf in their own country? Are we still blinded by our need for (over-)consumption?

Are we recommitting the sins of the past perhaps in milder forms because of a blindness to an earlier original sin of capitalism?

Do we need to better vitiate against raw capitalism with more regulation to provide a healthier mixed economy?

What happens to this graph when we overlay pure capitalism instead of a mixed economy? What if this spectrum was put on a different axis altogether? What does the current climate of the United states look like when graphed out on it. Which parts have diminished over the past 50 years with the decrease in regulation?

Some of these areas benefit heavily by government intervention and regulation.

We need the ability to better protect both common and public goods.

definitions:

• rivalry: does use by one person physically preclude use by others?
• excludability: do laws prohibit access to these goods?

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 10). "Trying to appease both public health demands and the libertarian views of the free market has led not only to astronomical death tolls, such as in the US, UK, and Brazil, but to flailing economies. " 2/3 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1359427735022694405

Wenham, C. (2021). What went wrong in the global governance of covid-19? BMJ, 372, n303. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n303

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 10). "Trying to appease both public health demands and the libertarian views of the free market has led not only to astronomical death tolls, such as in the US, UK, and Brazil, but to flailing economies. " 2/3 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1359427735022694405

The original goal with a bit of moderation may have worked. Regression to the mean forces it to a bad place, but when you algorithmically accelerate things toward our bases desires, you make it orders of magnitude worse.

This should be though of as pure social capitalism. We need the moderating force of government regulation to dampen our worst instincts, much the way the United State's mixed economy works (or at least used to work, as it seems that raw capitalism is destroying the United States too).

Sapir. A. (2020) European Union economies so differently? Policy contribution. Retrieved from: https://www.bruegel.org/2020/09/why-has-covid-19-hit-different-european-union-economies-so-differently/?utm_content=buffer5fc94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Torres, Irene, Osvaldo Artaza, Barbara Profeta, Cristina Alonso, and JaHyun Kang. ‘COVID-19 Vaccination: Returning to WHO’s Health For All’. The Lancet Global Health 0, no. 0 (25 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30415-0.

Trading is very important. The West advantage over China in the past.