04-05-2021, 12:26 PM
(03-28-2021, 12:19 AM)Einzige Wrote:Quote: The solution is going to come from the private sector, and what government needs to do is create the framework within which the private sector can do what it does best, which is allocate capital and innovate and begin to take the framework that’s been created. ... We need to go after this as if we’re really at war.”
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro...ate-change
Obviously, if Einzige thinks that the private sector should be abolished, then he would not think the solution would come from it. But Kerry is right. The government needs to regulate the private sector, and that will help move it in the right direction on climate change. The problem is the Republicans still think fossil fuels are needed for decades to come, at least. Shutting fossil fuel industries down is inconceivable to them. But that is what Democrats like Kerry propose (or must propose) over the next decade or two.
But that does not mean private transportation and energy industries need to be shut down, unless you are a communist. Shifting their products, taxing them more, maybe even breaking them up? Those might be good ideas to propose if you are a liberal, a progressive, a green, or a democratic socialist, etc.