Jitters

I find it interesting that there are four separate articles on the Foreign Affairs website that deal with climate change. They only give you one free one to read so I chose The Troubled Enery Transition, where they explain in great deal how and why capitalism has failed to curb emissions before insisting capitalism must do so. Somehow. Despite all the contradictions. Basically they fall back on "clean" natural gas and nuclear. They then go on to say today's "trouble" "makes clear that the process will unfold over a long period." One problem I see. We don't actually have "a long period" in which to make radical changes. You don't want to wait till you are in the middle of a mass extinction event, at or near cascading "tipping points" tp begin some gradual process. Perhaps had this "transition" begun say forty years ago, when it first became obvious, we could have had a more "pragmatic", less disruptive and slower "unfolding". But that didn't happen. Oops. A few other gems. They say we should cooperate with Asia and help finance adaptation and mitigation in the global South. Yeah sure. When pigs fly. The point is- the adults in the room have the jitters. Their carefully crafted consensus around liberal "democratic" capitalism has been hijacked by a bunch of anarchist hyper-capitalists led by a charismatic grifter. You can easily imagine these policy elites hoping for another Obama to pop up to save them from chaos, at least temporarily. EPA head Lee Zeldin will not let America fall for the "Green New Scam", or, as he calls it, "the climate change religion". Woke pagan hippies will not get in the way of economic growth, if he has anything to say. He proposed "the greatest rollback of environmental regulations in history", because putting a little Trumpian flourish on pronouncements is now de rigueur. All that government overeach cuts into profits and most folks have forgotten the image of rivers on fire. It's not the content of the policy change so much as the notion that in 2025 it is popular with a large segment of the population. Another scary tipping point. Sorry environmentalists, conservationists, etc.. try to be good "green capitalists" and this is what you get for all your years of advocacy and voting and donating to green NGOs. Time to sic the lawyers on em.