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Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

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Re: Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

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“The time has come to admit that we control our economy for the common good.” This is a nice sentiment but does not square with reality.

adding a “can” in there can clarify the author’s intent, I think. I mean, some truth to that, a political economy is not a solely hands-off thing in all cases, or solely planned-out either. And some aspirational idea thrown in about being able to direct an economy — I mean we were able to redirect our economy into a total war machine in our not so ancient past, and that was a common good arguably.

Re: Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

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Can you give us a link we can actually read/

You can usually open a private tab in your browser, go to google.com and paste the URL in the search field. The first result should be the FT page which when clicked will take you to the article without the paywall.

Re: Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames

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post #5

“The time has come to admit that we control our economy for the common good.” This is a nice sentiment but does not square with reality.

How so? Who controls the economy if not humans?

These rebuttals usually one from a sense of despair, but the system can be changed if we really want it to.