Nice, glad they've sorted it out. When will it be implemented?
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Right before the heat death of the universe
That's optimistic.
reminds me of the novella A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck.
Fast decarbonisation [...] shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. This would involve a sharp reduction in labour hours and the use of raw materials, along with big changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover.
Green parties (excluding the capitalist German and US Greens) have had this as the priorities on the platforms for decades. But the vast, vast majority of people choose to instead vote for the greedy, short-sighted, sociopathic parties that are instead increasing
- CO2e emissions,
- consumption,
- hours of work for effectively less money,
- factory animal farming and industrial fishing,
- habitat destruction, ...
How?
What this article fails to address is how you're going unrig the game thats been created. It talks at length about the result but not the process or even the environment required.
Most large economies are bought and paid for by the authoritarian left and right operating on behalf of wealth. They've rigged the system we operate in; how do we unrig it?
Without a revolution in every country all within a short span of time this is a big challenge. And even then, revolutions are always a throw of the political dice (and that's without taking into consideration interference from other countries during and after).
I can't take articles like this seriously when there's no substance only pipedreams. Hope is useful, but only if it's for something tangible, otherwise it's nothing more than a balm on an open wound.
How do we get there? How do we get enough governments that would actually do something like this into power? Voting? The UN? Mass strikes? Seizing the means of production? Persecuting billionaires? How? They're not going to lie down and volunteer to give up their wealth.
This is an opinion article written by an author of the subject covered by the news article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival .
Pipe dreams are weak.
I couldn’t even get through the first sentence