{"id":57002,"date":"2021-03-06T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57002"},"modified":"2021-03-07T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:17:12","slug":"mass-education-and-the-climate-crisis-lessons-from-the-pandemic-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57002","title":{"rendered":"Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is part three of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org\u00a0here<\/a>) argues that money is not scarce.\u00a0Part two<\/a>\u00a0argues that control of government policy by wealthy elites tends to produce unnecessary suffering and inadequate responses to major crises. Part three argues that plutocracy is incompatible with serious climate action. Part four explores how the public can easily draw very different conclusions and argues that the climate movement must undertake mass education to ensure these lessons are learned. Part five outlines a broad curriculum containing these lessons and many more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lesson 3: Plutocracy Is Incompatible with Addressing Climate Change<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic has illuminated the brutality and inadequacy that often defines wealthy elites\u2019 control over government, and should prompt us to consider whether we can conceivably address the climate crisis under elite rule.<\/p>\n

We should start by recognizing the effect that the pandemic-driven economic shutdown had on carbon dioxide emissions. Daily emissions across the world in April 2020 were\u00a017% lower<\/a>\u00a0than the previous year\u2014the\u00a0largest drop<\/a>\u00a0in recorded history. In the US, emissions dropped an incredible 32%. At the end of 2020, after scattered attempts to reopen parts of the economy, the full year\u2019s emissions were\u00a0estimated<\/a>\u00a0to have fallen by a record 7% globally and 12% in the US. It is valuable for us to see that rapid cuts to emissions are technically possible. But because they are not a result of conscious changes to underlying systems, the effect is temporary and causes extensive harm.<\/p>\n

A carbon budget for keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius prescribes an annual decarbonization rate of\u00a010% or more<\/a> for wealthy countries, beginning immediately, until emissions are eliminated around 2040…<\/p>\n

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Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3) This is part three of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org\u00a0here) argues that money is not scarce.\u00a0Part two\u00a0argues that control of government policy by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[31002,113,141,6410,607,6665],"class_list":["post-57002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-aaron-karp","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-decarbonization","tag-pandemic","tag-resilience-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57004,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions\/57004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}