when trillionaires try to fix the climate voluntarily by some far-off future date ...
There are massive global organizations of financial corporations that have banded together to take the planet Net Zero by 2050, at least this is their stated goal. Perhaps the largest is the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, GFANZ, which collectively owns or manages assets worth more than $150 trillion. This is perhaps 1/3 of the world's
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It's something different: It's the mistrust that this recent craze about "net zero" and "green/clean everything" is actually a secret agenda of ejecting the developed world back to circumstances like in the Middle Ages. And only the rich people of the Western countries are going to be the ones being allowed to live in lascivious luxury. - So to say, a new style of colonialism in which the so-called "golden billion" reserves the majority of the natural resouces for itself to consume them (again, like in the previous centuries) and the remaining rest of the world get sentenced to remain in poverty.
And, frankly... I cannot reject this completely.
Because all those who talk about "green whatever" mostly fool themselves in technical means. Simply because they have no idea about technology and production and what's truly in the old stuff created with fossil fuels and what's truly in all the stuff that's produced using their so-called "new clean energy resources".
For example, there's a lot of talk about "effectivity" and "being able to control everything, to switch things on only using your smartphone if you like", but these people completely ignore that, for that in order to work, even just the standard houshold devices like a coffee machine need to contain some more bits of electronics, some more semi-conductors and microchips in order to be able remote-controlled.
And THAT requires using more electric components, vice versa creating MORE electronic waste if the device gets broken and they throw it away because it's not repairable.
So, what have you won then? For satisfying this play instinct, more resources are being used again to bring to you the same tool like before. Which then is also just only intended to make coffee, not save the world or anything like that...
In that point, the wording about "green brainwashing" of those fractions that don't join such alliances is definitely true. They don't want this false "logic" going round in their circles only to recognize where it is utter nonsense and then having to reorganize their whole production and school education contents again.
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I think I'm late to this party but I think I finally understand how patronizing it is for rich countries and wealthy people to talk about reducing emissions while poor countries are wondering where their next meal is coming from.
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For example - take the current talk in the EU about setting a time limit since when vehicles with a conventional combustion engine won't be allowed for new registrations anymore. What are the lower classes to use as means of transportation then, if, at the same time, no government - with and without participation of a green party - proves to be able to build back a good public transportation network nationwide? Electric cars are way more expensive than cars with the conventional combusion engine. The question of costs for maintenance - how will that vary from a conventional car?
The current look of the world as it's getting painted with green marketing of the capitalist industry that only seeks to make profit with stuff seemingly "never seen before" - it's just a world only made for people who are equipped with the necessary loose cash in their wallets.
And that's not the working class which produces all the stuff that everyone consumes.
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