“… the economist who has been embraced as a guiding light by the global institution tasked with shepherding humanity through the climate crisis, who has been awarded a Nobel for climate costing, who is widely feted as the doyen of his field, doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
"the coming era of mass human death...the Plutocene, the natural successor to the Anthropocene. Global governments...are “criminals” for ushering in the Plutocene in pursuit of short-term political and economic gain.
“The governing classes have given up on the survival of future generations and their inaction constitutes the ultimate crime against life on Earth.” Part of the reason...is the false cheer that Nordhaus has spread with his math-genius, climate-idiot models.”
"James Hansen...has calculated that a massive temperature differential between the poles and the equator would occur with an AMOC shutdown, producing superstorms of immense fury across the Atlantic Ocean... the last time Earth experienced those kinds of temperature differentials...raging tempests deposited house-sized boulders on coastlines in Europe and the Caribbean. Waves from the storms were estimated to have surged inland to 40 meters above sea level.”
@peterbutler ‘in the circular flow diagram, there is no ecosphere, no environment. The economy is seen as a self-renewing, perpetual-motion merry-go-round set in a vacuum’ and this model is still being taught in high school Economics classes :blobeyes:
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