It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.
If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average.
Jesus, while I admire the effort that must be the most frustrating job in the world.
Them: “Here’s the solution to saving humanity and our planet and creating equity and end suffering.”
Our leaders: “No.”
correction:
billionaires: Say no.
Our leaders: No.
Our leaders: let me ask my boss
Gates, Bezos and Musk: “No”
The boss is the voters who keep choosing to vote for narcissistic sociopathic candidates.
I’ve only ever voted Green, I’ve never voted for any omnicidal capitalists.
It’s not “propaganda” making more than 90% of people choose leaders who will continue pushing us towards a mass extinction event, more genocides, oligarchy, etc… It’s that almost all voters are as greedy, short-sighted, and sociopathic as the people they keep voting for.