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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index f77bda5..3f598e8 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ been partially rolled back. - Overfishing is intensifying - Green New Deal is nowhere to be seen - Water pollution has gone backwards (in the UK at least) -- Energy transition shows no signs of starting +- Energy transition shows few signs of starting (though consider obvious + objections: falling coal consumption in China, increasing renewable energy + production, car electrification) - Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate All these failures beg the question: why aren't the green movement's strategies @@ -276,13 +278,13 @@ bite, without state intervention to redistribute investment, the cost of carbon pricing is likely to fall hardest on the poorest. This is not politically sustainable. -This was decisively demonstrated in 2018, after French President Emmanuel Macron -attempted to raise fuel taxes, purportedly in an attempt to curb greenhouse gas -emissions \[EVIDENCE\]. This move triggered an enormous wave of protests across -France, symbolised by the protester's uniform, the _gilet jaune_. Despite -Macron's strong political position at the beginning of the protests, he was -forced to roll back the tax increases alongside other concessions to the -protesters \[EVIDENCE\]. +This was decisively demonstrated in 2018 \[ALSO GORDON BROWN'S FUEL PRICE +ESCALATOR?\], after French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to raise fuel +taxes, purportedly in an attempt to curb greenhouse gas emissions \[EVIDENCE\]. +This move triggered an enormous wave of protests across France, symbolised by +the protester's uniform, the _gilet jaune_. Despite Macron's strong political +position at the beginning of the protests, he was forced to roll back the tax +increases alongside other concessions to the protesters \[EVIDENCE\]. So, while smart market fixes might work in theory, we're still waiting for a credible vision for how they might be politically sustainable. Thus, here too, @@ -301,13 +303,15 @@ served as the main scapegoat of green rhetoric. For example, \[EXAMPLE\]. However, there's no particular reason to think that the fossil fuel industry is scientifically incompetent or unable to act rationally. In fact, fossil fuel companies are if anything astonishingly capable of mustering scientific and -technological resources to act rationally. \[EVIDENCE\] +technological resources to act rationally. \[EVIDENCE\] \[NB. RATIONAL != +PLANNING FOR PEAK OIL!\] Even the production of so-called 'fake science' can be seen as the result of the fossil fuel industry acting rationally on the basis of the scientific evidence. \[EVIDENCE\] As has been pointed out time and time again \[EVIDENCE\], the fossil fuel industry is following a path well-trodden by the tobacco industry, -who have long since proven that science is up for sale \[EVIDENCE\]. +who have long since proven that science is up for sale \[EVIDENCE\] \[SEE +DAVID'S COMMENTS, log#2026-06-09\]. The problem for the world is not that people aren't listening to the science, but rather that fossil fuel companies, and other business lobbies, have an @@ -331,7 +335,8 @@ environmental movement as the up-and-coming stage in human evolution [@cornerstones, p. 202]. Similarly, the word 'Anthropocene,' coined by \[WHO?\] in \[WHEN?\], describes the present time as one characterised by human dominion over the earth, as if the anti-green actions of some humans represents the -interests of everyone \[DEMONSTRATE SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID THIS BEFORE\]. +interests of everyone \[DEMONSTRATE SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID THIS BEFORE\]. \[NEED +TO SHOW CURRENCY OF 'ANTHROPOCENE'? NATURE ANTHROPOCENE BRIEFING?\] In reality, green rhetoric is primarily addressed to the Western middle classes. This makes sense, since the green movement has historically been heavily |