Democracies can plan ahead and do so all the time. Most laws and system stay in place even with changes in government. In fact you see that a lot in climate policies. Stuff like combustion engine or fossil boiler phase outs, carbon caps, subsidies for green technology and plenty more, which are for a long time. The UK has halved its annual CO2 emissions since 1990 and a good number of European countries are not far behind.
Spent some time with an extraordinarily intelligent young man who worked US Navy SIGINT. That was his exact take. China is going to kick our ass because they plan long term and make shit happen, regardless of shifting public opinion. He had me wondering if democracy isn’t, in fact, a bunch of bullshit. Not working out for America ATM, now is it?
Look at America’s original Constitution. Ah! They only want land owning white males to vote! Ah! But in those times, those were the people who had a stake in governmental policy. It was safe to bet they’d keep the country economically stable and out of costly wars, all in their own best interest.
The irony of modern land-owning white males throwing the country under the bus for short term gains does not escape me. (And I’m one of them, who votes against my own interests.)
China is going to kick our ass because they plan long term and make shit happen, regardless of shifting public opinion.
Democracies can plan ahead. It’s just that the US is not a real democracy, it’s a corporatocracy. Unfortunately it does its best to negatively affect its sphere of influence and beyond.
Turns out, it’s easy to implement policy in an autocratic regime. No pesky democratic decision processes.
That said, this as a win.
Democracies can plan ahead and do so all the time. Most laws and system stay in place even with changes in government. In fact you see that a lot in climate policies. Stuff like combustion engine or fossil boiler phase outs, carbon caps, subsidies for green technology and plenty more, which are for a long time. The UK has halved its annual CO2 emissions since 1990 and a good number of European countries are not far behind.
Are you under the impression that democracy is the thing holding the West back from a green transition?
Not per se, more like the whole shebang of states, parliamentarism, imperfect elections, economy.
Spent some time with an extraordinarily intelligent young man who worked US Navy SIGINT. That was his exact take. China is going to kick our ass because they plan long term and make shit happen, regardless of shifting public opinion. He had me wondering if democracy isn’t, in fact, a bunch of bullshit. Not working out for America ATM, now is it?
Look at America’s original Constitution. Ah! They only want land owning white males to vote! Ah! But in those times, those were the people who had a stake in governmental policy. It was safe to bet they’d keep the country economically stable and out of costly wars, all in their own best interest.
The irony of modern land-owning white males throwing the country under the bus for short term gains does not escape me. (And I’m one of them, who votes against my own interests.)
Democracies can plan ahead. It’s just that the US is not a real democracy, it’s a corporatocracy. Unfortunately it does its best to negatively affect its sphere of influence and beyond.
Government doesn’t seem to influence the adoption rate of renewables.
Could be fast and wrong too. Like the sparrows.