Or, she sees both climate change and inequality as risks to human well-being, and wants to find solutions that solve both problems.
If @AOC really thought that global warming was an existential risk to humanity, it would be worth solving even if the solution radically _increased_ economic inequality.
She obviously doesn't believe it's a true X-risk. For her, it's just a hammer for smashing capitalism.https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1111813477033787392 …
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The likelihood that two vast and disparate problems (climate change and economic inequality) just happen to be optimally solvable by the _same_ policy interventions is negligible. She has to prioritize and solve the X-risk; the other is relatively minor in terms of human welfare.
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If she wanted to protect the environment, she would be looking to control immigration better. It is absolutely inevitable that every additional person added to population = more fossil fuel burned.
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You... you get that they’ll burn fuel wherever they go, right?
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What is up with the spastic hand gestures. Beto and AOC hand all over the place Is this a liberal disease? Jesus. Keep the hands down, you look even more foolish
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Climate change and environmental collapse IS an existential risk to humanity. It frustrates me enormously to see it used as a cover for a political agenda in this way. This, of all issues, NEEDS to be apolitical
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I think she believes in it, but I also think that she has extreme and strong progressive political opinions. How could someone with such opinions not try to gain the obvious advantage of the political climate that climate change produces?
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It's not about finding a good solution for climate change, it's about finding one that achieves other political goals.
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