cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33936586
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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There'd be no crisis if we ditched oil and coal companies and just put solar and nuclear everywhere.
Let's say its true that doing that would stop the problem getting worse (e.g. no more emissions after 5 years)*.
We still have the legacy issues to deal with and I need anticaps who are thinking seriously about what can replace capitalism to take seriously how dependent we are on natural systems that are very close to collapse. We are already passed the point where just stopping the harm is job done. The climate is not the one we have evolved and developed civilisation under its far less stable.
And none of the issues are helped by a further moving target by pursuing something that pushes our energy usage even higher like some forms of "AI" that produce very little meaningful outside of capitalism anyway.
So we can have solar and nuclear oligarchs instead of oil oligarchs. Yeah, that would be slightly better
Well yeah, "nuclear oligarch" and "solar oligarch" just sound cooler than oil.
Other than a solar oligarch is impossible since anyone can put up panels.
And other than the premise of the thread is that capitalists are already to blame.