All things said and done, this isn’t the worst pick I’ve seen in this hellscape administration. I was fully expecting an Exxon CEO or something. It’s still extremely worrying how easy Jacobs can throw away any scientific integrity for Trump’s loyalty (e.g. Sharpiegate).
It’s almost like… we need societal level changes that take power away from this ultra-rich class. Have you read The Ministry for the Future? It’s a really interesting look at the dystopian near future of the climate crisis.
We all need to buckle in, brace for the worst, and push back at every step. The strategy is just do everything they can to overwhelm the people of the country (their “adversaries”) so that even if they only get 10% successfully pushed through, that’s still a huge problem.
The real alternative is to restructure our incentives systems (i.e. capital market regulations), but that’s the absolute last thing that will ever happen. Carbon taxes are a step in that direction but are still just a tiny bandaid on a gaping wound.
Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don’t mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I’m not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that’s of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.
sucks to suck
Sure that’s fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn’t go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I’m well aware that’s not modern Conservatism in the US these days.