A good number of reddit subs related to politics used very very heavy moderation to keep bots out. Many required a certain number of karma, time on reddit or similar to post on in the first place… It did not alwawys work and can lead to bubbles. Obviously so can just insulting other users. I would give it a try with some controversial memes. Something like Biden and Trump are the same. That usually gets some really bad discussions.

Setting up a community to explain bans is not needed. The mods of a community are public, so it is easy to just message them.

Funny thing something like that happened to the account:

Chinas economy has problems, the population is falling and they do have a massive built up of green technologies. That are important factors for a fast change in emissions. Given that China is producing about 30% of global emissions, this is really great news. Lets hope countries like India do not make up for the drop.

We can verify a lot of that. There are satellites in space measuring emissions and they are good enough to get data for individual power plants.

It is not too much of a good thing. Most emissions do not come from the electricity sector, but a lot of processes can be done with electricity instead of fossil fuels. Obviously plenty cheap electricity makes that more attractive. So we are going to see more EVs, electric heating for both buildings, but also in industrial processes, green steel production and so forth. As long as Spain still has those options, it is not too much electricity.

Awhile or three weeks as Macron defines it. Well it is two now. I hope that liberal knows what he is doing.

We see that in France right now. The Greens who in France tend to be fundamentalist have formed an alliance with nearly all other left leaning parties to prevent the right from taking over in the snap election Macron has called. Macron is badly hurt, due to awful internal policies, so they are very very unlikely to win the elections. Also voter turnout was only 51%, so there is a decent chance, the French parliament actually fights back rather heavily. In France the Greens lost 5 out of their 10 seats, so if this works this would be good news.

The biggest looser were the German Greens. However elections are supposed to be in a year. The German economy does badly and the Greens pushed through some unpopular reforms, which were badly needed. However federal elections are in autumn next year. So they have some time to come up with a plan. Good news is that the unpopular laws they wanted to pass, have been passed, the German economy does rather badly and that might change, the EM probably improves the general mood a bit and they still have some pre election gifts lined up. As for the next elections as long as the center right party remains unwilling to work together with the far right party, they have to form a coalition with either the social democrats or the Greens. So most the next government might do pretty much nothing at all or do a bit of good work.

However the simple truth is that the current governing coalition in the EU Parliament still would have a majority. The Greens are part of it and plenty of other parties in the EU are aware and acting on climate change. Also a lot of good laws have been passed. So just keeping them in place will do a lot of good.

Yes, yes and yes

Exactly the two American car manufacturers are able to survive rather well so far with pretty much no sales abroad. They are still some of the largest in the world. That is besides the US being a large enough market for companies to seriously consider keeping their combustion engine technology around, if they believe it will sell. This obviously means they might lobby their home markets to keep them around as well. Stellantis is the most obvious company to maybe do that.

Bidens action turns 10% of global car sales electric(not counting other countries actions here) and forces GM and Ford to go electric.

So Russia is pissed and has no idea how to hurt the West.

It does matter. Last year 15.5million new cars were sold in the US. Besides the US being a rich country, it has a below average share of EVs in sales. So Biden pushing this will make the transition faster, as companies set up new production.

It also matters for another reason. US oil production is likely to decline in the coming years. Currently the US is an oil exporter, but this is going to change unless the US lowers consumption. EVs are a key part of doing that. If done successfully, that means the US has less interest in protection global oil production and flows to keep prices low. So less US interventions and higher oil prices.

I disagree that we should try to replace GDP with one metric. The world is too complicated for that. What we should do instead is look at multiple metrics and have targets for each of those metrics. Doughnut economics is a pretty decent framework for that. It uses consumption limits in form of cliamte change, chemical pollution, biodiversity, land use, water consumption and so forth on one hand and on the other site targets like food security, life expectancy, equality(GINI, but also race and gender), energy, water access and so forth. This is much better as it can be much more easily adapted to changing dangers and the situation. Water is for example much less of a problem for a country like Norway, then for say Iraq. So they would focus on different metrics.

UBI means everybody gets a certain amount of money no questions asked. It does not mean wage work is illegal. In fact most actual plans presume a payment, which is just about enough to cover the basics. So if you want more, you have to work for it. The big advantages is that people are not forced into jobs they hate and it allows everybody to take more risks in terms of say art, starting new companies or working as an independent contractor.

Metrics is one problem. However UBI solves another very real problem. When you shrink GDP, you reduce the material wealth available of the group. UBI makes sure everybody has a certain minimal standard of material wellbeing, so cutting GDP does not hurt the poor, but only the rich. This is one of the differences between degrowing an economy and a recession.

2.11 is very clear about abolishing all labor laws. 1.0 is very clear about "Individuals are inherently free to make choices for themselves and must accept responsibility for the consequences of the choices they make. " hence slave contracts are legal, as long as you do sell yourself for any reason. The rest is just pure and simple logic. States are one of the systems redistributing wealth, obviously not perfectly, but richer people are supposed to pay more taxes then the poor. The rest is distributed via social security, which the Libertarian Party is against as stated in 2.13 and 2.14. With contracts being enforced and no limits on contracts being placed, they replace many current laws. Hence you get an aristocratic class. Eve worse 3.7 expressly allows for governments to be completely ignored, if they hurt their freedoms.

I have no doubt that most libertarians are actually good people and mostly are pissed at a lot of stupid government rules, which are absolutely real. However it is like a lot of things an overreaction, which could hurt a lot of people.

Intressting that no German banks are involved in this deal.

Also the gas is not needed. Europe is doing fine with the gas available and especially Germany should lower its consumption in the comin years, due to banning sales of new gas boilers in the coming years. With heating buildings making up half of Germanys gas consumption this is a big change

You mean abolish all labor laws and enforce all contracts to the letter by the government. We know that this is going to lead to company towns, slave contracts and similar setups. We had those everywhere before the workers won those laws. You end up with a capitalist class ruling everything in a nearly aristrocatic fashion. This is already the case in many ways, but this would make it so much worse.

We have cooperatives in a lot of forms being part of our existing system. This is in the form of housing coops, cooperative banks, cooperative stores and worker owned companies. All of them survive and some even thrive in our current system. Mostly they are growing slowly, if at all, but are much more stable and fiscally conservative. They can even work very well on natural monopolies as utility cooperatives have shown.

There are also legal setups like trusts, which can be very benefitial, if done right.

What is SA supposed to stand for?

Especially since south of the EU the countries are both poor and are going to be hit hard by climate change. Just picture Egypt without the Nile.