These people are scum.
https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/markey_letter_to_treasury_re_climate_sanctions.pdf
Combined with additional climate diplomacy with key countries like China, financial sanctions would ensure that addressing the climate crisis remains at the center of U.S. foreign and national security strategy.
Signed by:
Edward J. Markey
Veronica Escobar
Bernard Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Literally only the four of them. This wasn’t even just some “sign on to whatever” thing. They specifically used their “progressive” cred to attack China and promote the use of economic sanctions.
The United States, 4-5% of the world’s population, still uses 25% of the world’s resources. You outsource production to China, and then you say “China is the carbon polluter!” China is producing your buckets. China is producing your nuts and bolts. China is producing your phones. Try to produce it in your own countries and see your carbon emissions rise!
The United States, 4-5% of the world’s population, still uses 25% of the world’s resources
Holy fuck I’ve somehow never seen this statistic before and death to america
and our corporations in the US urge the workers to blame themselves. for this “25%” of the world’s resources. They say to the American worker "You consume too much. You don’t recycle enough. You don’t drive a good enough vehicle. " And while that may be partly true, and there are small choices we can make to improve the state of our “carbon footprint” that is mostly bullshit to let the rich off the hook. The military is the biggest polluter. The rich consume far more than the workers. The bourgeois-run city governments refuse to invest in public transportation. They refuse to make walkable cities with mixed-use residential zones. They insist on car-centered design and suburban sprawl. They insist on a culture single-family home ownership. Bosses shame workers for not owning their own vehicle. Most of the recycling that gets picked up never actually gets recycled, it gets incinerated. If it does get recycled, the recycling process is often very destructive to the environment. The supermarkets throw out millions of tons of expired food and lock the dumpsters to keep out homeless people and price gouge. There is a refusal to reduce emissions or transition to green energy. All of the problems with America’s consumption of resources are systemic, and the system is run by the bourgeoisie, and is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. So telling people that the solution is putting out their recycling and driving a tesla is absurd.
Try to produce it in your own countries and see your carbon emissions rise!
Honestly, the one hope I have for the future is that China decarbonizes the economy that all the western nations manufacturer out of.
God forbid Americans bring their industry home under current leadership. We’ll be draining mercury into our aquafiers and stuffing our vacant skyscrapers with pig shit before the turn of the next decade.
