I will say again, we simply cannot rely on market mechanisms to get us where we need to be. We need a Marshall Plan, a planet wide commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and it needs to be completed in 2 decades.
Isn't this just another way of saying that we're just waiting for the fat lady to sing a dirge for the death of civilization?
A Marshall Plan actually requires some tin star marshall to come blazing into town with all of his brothers, rooting out and shooting up every evil doer in the territory. Who is going to tell both Dangerous Donald and Vicious Vlad that they not only have to holster their nukes, they've got to hand them over to the New Marshall in Town?
Who has the moral authority to tell China and India to stop moving their poor into the middle class? Who can tell tropical people and desert dwellers that they must turn off the air conditioning in the baby's room?
Waiting for a Marshal to appear, and putting any hope in any Plan he might envision is like waiting for Godot, if he exists, he's got pressing business somewhere else.
We couldn't agree on the shape of the table where Peace in Vietnam would be negotiated. Slavery exists almost 200 years after Britain abolished it. New coal plants are coming on line, and newer ones are on the drawing board.
Two decades is the blink of an eye.
Terry