Certainly the subject deserves more than the words you and I have given it. It seems like a lot of wishful thinking to me and even if the change is coming it is decades in the future.

Every product’s price should include the cost to restore the environmental damage caused to produce that product. Beef, Iphones, electricity, clothes, whatever. The path to sustainability includes more than beef, meat, fossil fuels, palm oil, whatever.

Extraction supports the livelihood of much of the world’s population. I wonder if poverty will be increased if unsustainable extraction was ended. It is a double edged sword. If prices rise to pay for environmental restoration, consumption will probably decrease. Some peoples livelihood depends of activities that need to be ended. Coal mining is just the canary in the coal mine.

The path forward is an exercise in picking winners and losers. Who will get government help, who will get government exceptions/market protections. I certainly don’t trust our leaders to make good choices. We can’t expect China, Sudan, Russia or anyone other developing nation to hurt their industries to prevent environmental damage.

TEK