Question: impact of carbon pricing

It'd generate revenue through a hybrid tax swap, rebate, and green spending program.

Split is likely 10% in direct rebates for the lowest income groups, 40% in tax swaps, and 50% in green spending.

a hybrid approach of a carbon-for-capital tax swap plus rebates balance efficiency and equity remaining revenues financ green development or fund energy efficiency programs Taxes on capital and income distort the economy Reducing those would mitigate the economic impact of carbon pricing increase GDP the regressivity of tax swaps overstated. lowering corporate tax rates would result in a progressive distribution lawmakers for political reasons are likely to merge approaches a capital tax reduction that diverts roughly 10 percent of revenue toward rebates neutraliz impact on those households .


Question: green development funding

It'd generate revenue through a hybrid tax swap, rebate, and green spending program.

Split is likely 10% in direct rebates for the lowest income groups, 40% in tax swaps, and 50% in green spending.

a hybrid approach of a carbon-for-capital tax swap plus rebates balance efficiency and equity remaining revenues financ green development or fund energy efficiency programs Taxes on capital and income distort the economy Reducing those would mitigate the economic impact of carbon pricing increase GDP the regressivity of tax swaps overstated. lowering corporate tax rates would result in a progressive distribution lawmakers for political reasons are likely to merge approaches a capital tax reduction that diverts roughly 10 percent of revenue toward rebates neutraliz impact on those households .


Question: taxes on capital and income

It'd generate revenue through a hybrid tax swap, rebate, and green spending program.

Split is likely 10% in direct rebates for the lowest income groups, 40% in tax swaps, and 50% in green spending.

a hybrid approach of a carbon-for-capital tax swap plus rebates balance efficiency and equity remaining revenues financ green development or fund energy efficiency programs Taxes on capital and income distort the economy Reducing those would mitigate the economic impact of carbon pricing increase GDP the regressivity of tax swaps overstated. lowering corporate tax rates would result in a progressive distribution lawmakers for political reasons are likely to merge approaches a capital tax reduction that diverts roughly 10 percent of revenue toward rebates neutraliz impact on those households .


Question: Trump devastates US-China relations

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: Vinjamuri 24

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: Leslie Vinjamuri China

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: Trump China relations bad

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: Trump China policy tariffs

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: Biden China policy

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: US-China relations severe

Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2

Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/03/us-elections-2024-trump-biden-policy-diplomacy-china-europe/]

Those who claim Biden’s policies toward China are continuation of Trump’s are vastly oversimplifying . Trump’s bombastic and disruptive Trump’s strategy for China’s economic influence exclusively tariffs return of Trump Trump return consequences for U.S.-China relations severe


Question: degrowth sustains capitalism

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: fazi 22

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: Thomas Fazi

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: degrowth unintended consequences

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: degrowth anti-industrialist bias

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: degrowth empowers elites

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: degrowth making people poorer

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: degrowth zero covid

Absent plan’s legal restraint of anti-statism, degrowth merely sustains capitalism

Fazi 22 [Thomas Fazi, UnHerd columnist and translator, latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green, “The paradox of Degrowth Communism,” UnHerd, 12-5-2022, https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-paradox-of-degrowth-communism/]

The problem isn’t the society envisioned It’s unintended consequences of their theory erroneously conflate energy and resource consumption things finite But energy bountiful anti-industrialist bias a obstacle to the massive state-sponsored infrastructure investment needed to make economies sustainable most concerning apocalyptic that either we fix everything or we’re all screwed effectively anything is justified including authoritarian interventions like Zero Covid on steroids political cover to the easiest way to reduce consumption : making ordinary people poorer pursued by elites the driving force of capitalism is not growth or profits , but power more than happy to have growth-crushing austerity degrowth want to overthrow capitalism , but actually empowering capitalist elites


Question: Plan gets horse-traded kills

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: Cushman 18

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: John Cushman

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: Carbon tax horse-trading

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: legislation in congress tax

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: highway funding horse-trading

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: tax swap act emissions

Specifically, the plan will get horsetraded. That kills solvency.

John Cushman 18. Staff writer at Inside Climate, former board of governors of the National Press Club and professor at Vermont Law School. “Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading.” Inside Climate. July 25, 2018. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs/

legislation in Congress to put a tax on carbon even those who spoke approvingly refer to it as a conversation For the bill to have any chance, it’ll have to start some horse-trading Without some give and take likely to go nowhere spend the money for raw political appeal modernizing highways horse-trading especially intense attempt to bridge profound political divisions To gain support increase the share recycled through tax cuts tax swap act of political pragmatism environmentalists bristle expected to produce only modest emissions reductions


Question: Capitalist growth is sustainable

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: Smith 23

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: Noah Smith degrowth bad

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: degrowth unworkable stall renewable transition

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: resource use decoupling

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: sustainability increases tonnage

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: degrowthers sloppy Hickel aggregate measures

Capitalist growth is sustainable and good.

Smith 23 [Noah Smith, doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2012 and was an assistant professor of Behavioral Finance at Stony Brook University. "Why Paul Ehrlich got everything wrong.” https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-paul-ehrlich-got-everything-wrong]

the left afraid  of growth  and  resource limitations degrowth’s limited due to vigorous  pushback  its is unworkable stall the transition to renewable energy , and require untenable sacrifices degrowthers are sloppy  Hickel uses aggregate measures terrible it includes m aterials recycled or sustainable it ignores the most important sustainability substitution sustainability increases tonnage also increases trend extrapolation is “ line go up” thinking treat correlation and resource use as a law of the Universe there’s no reason to believe that countries decouple degrowthers claimed decoupling is impossible This is nonsense . Absolute decoupling is possible in every country outsourcing emissions doesn’t happen . There’s no reason the world can’t decouple it will take several years by which time unrest will be behind us


Question: 50/50 election

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: Mesa and Sager

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: toss up election

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: electoral college matters

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: contested states

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: election is a toss-up

9---It’s a 50/50

Mesa & Sager 9-23-24. Jesus Mesa & Monica Sager. Newsweek “Nate Silver Says Newest Harris-Trump Polling Left Him 'A Little Surprised'” https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-harris-trump-poll-surprised-1958048 Accessed9.25.2024///mosuQ

contested states honestly, we don't know who is going to win sentiment shared by other pollsters going to hit November 5 with no sense a "toss-up" election is won by Electoral College votes, not popular vote


Question: decarbonization bad for carbon

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: Gebelli 23

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: Marta and William Melander

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: CCU valorizes CO2

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: decarbonization has bad connotation

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: defossilization is more appropriate

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: carbon remains crucial

2. LANGUAGE---Framing policies around “decarbonization” creates a negative connotation for CO2---the counterplan valorized carbon.

Gebelli ’23 [Marta and William Melander; May 26; Thesis for Master of Science in Engineering; Lund University, “CCU in Scandinavia: an uncertainty analysis regarding the future state of captured carbon in the region,” https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9124679&fileOId=9124703]

Mertens highlights terms that care must be taken the difference between decarbonization and defossilization decarbonization gives a bad connotation to CO2 CCU aims to valorize CO2 carbon remains crucial what will allow to achieve the climate ambitions, is to use carbon circularly so defossilization would be more appropriate  the CCU should use CO2 capture  Fossil-fuel based sources are not relevant


Question: plan triggers global uptake

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: David Dreisen

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: Michael Mehling

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: clean energy adoption good

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: zero emission tech markets spread

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: governments drive costs of clean tech down

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: clean energy reduces prices of oil

The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.

David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law School, “PRICING, DECARBONIZATION, AND GREEN NEW DEALS,” William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 48.2, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol48/iss2/2/, accessed 12-26-24, HMc

When a single government secures production of zero-emission tech markets spread their adoption Governments need not impose cost on the entire economy a single government can pay a very small amount catalyze price declines widespread adoption of key tech can trigger collapse of emissions ambitious change in a tiny market have transformative effects Getting the price right has nothing to do with it . Alternatives to pricing that directly encourage zero-emission tech do much better governments can drive costs of clean tech down leading to deployment then diffusion


Question: Causes follow on

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: Cooper 21

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: Charlie cooper

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: convention of states

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: prodding effect

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: Congress decline amendments

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: article v convention limited

Causes follow on and avoids politics.

Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]

Constitution provides a path through states a convention ratified by three-quarters particularly if Congress proved unwilling When that was one state shy of the convention Congress reacted by amendment the " prodding effect ." could work today Opponents fear a " runaway " Article V can be for limited purposes "Congress decline amendments outside scope


Question: CP solves and avoids elections

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: Schmalensee 15

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: MIT solar study

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: government agency procure renewable energy

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: RPS obligations entities that sell electricity

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: trading mechanism enable renewable electricity

CP solves and avoids elections.

Schmalensee 15 [Schmalensee, R., V. Bulovic, R. Armstrong, C. Batlle, P. Brown, J. Deutch, H. Jacoby, R. Jaffe, J. Jean, R. Miller, F. O'Sullivan, J. Parsons, J.I. Pérez-Arriaga, N. Seifkar, R. Stoner and C. Vergara (2015): The Future of Solar Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, May (http://mitei.mit.edu/futureofsolar)] //Rochester – Ali

more popular internationally to have a government agency procure renewable generating capacity centrally as the quantity of renewable generation supplied in response to a fixed feed-in tariff uncertain RPS obligations generally fall on entities that sell electricity to end users trading mechanism enable renewable electricity to be generate RPS popular in the United State that the costs of RPS programs are built into long-term contracts between utilities and generators and thus are much less visible than the explicit subsidies paid under feed-in-tariff or output subsidy schemes


Question: FDIC regulatory power

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC 2022

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC deposit insurance

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC strategic plan

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC insurance and supervisory responsibilities

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC not primary federal regulator

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC bank regulation

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: FDIC large institutions

And they have regulatory power because they provide deposit insurance to every bank

FDIC 22 (“FDIC 2022-2026 Strategic Plan: The FDIC and the Banking Industry: Perspective and Outlook,” https://www.fdic.gov/strategic-plans/fdic-2022-2026-strategic-plan-fdic-and-banking-industry-perspective-and-outlook)

Although the FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for large Institutions it has both insurance and back-up supervisory responsibilities for those institutions


Question: clean lending

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: banks prioritizing low carbon

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: Sarah Light and Christina Skinner

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: banks commit capital

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: transition financing clean

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: Wells Fargo invest sustainable businesses

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: Morgan Stanley mobilize

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: banks climate governance

5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.

Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938

banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the transition financing clean and low-carbon committing to fund new tech Morgan Stanley mobilize $250 billion Wells Fargo invest $200 billion to sustainable businesses 50%  focused on transition


Question: Trump budget freeze Congressional stability

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: Cama and Picon

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: Trump impounding funds

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: Constitutional crisis

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: Trump impeachment

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: president refuse money

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: Impoundment Control Act

Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy.

Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-got-a-lot-more-complicated/ GMU NR]

Constitutional crisis At the core of controversy is a dispute likely to play throughout Trump’s time in office whether the president can refuse money for programs he doesn’t like Trump got in trouble for impounding funds which led to his impeachment The president ran against Impoundment Control Act


Question: US still ahead

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: Muriga et al

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: Helen Toner Georgetown

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: China catching up to US?

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: DeepSeek breakthrough

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: US pushes frontier

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: AI policy analyst Toner

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: US ahead in AI race

US still ahead.

Muriga et al., 2/1 – citing Helen Toner, AI policy analyst @ Georgetown’s center for security and emerging tech. (Madhumita Murgia, Richard Waters and Eleanor Olcott. (2-1-2025). The global AI race: Is China catching up to the U.S.?. financialpost. https://financialpost.com/financial-times/ai-china-catching-up-us?utm_source=pocket_saves; Neo)

DeepSeek’s breakthrough just one among many hard to tell how it change industry advances emulat US counterparts What would really turn the tables is if they built something that actually pushed the frontier


Question: violence becomes nobodies

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible


Question: Stanley 21

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible


Question: Eric A. Stanley

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible


Question: atmospheres of violence structuring antagonism

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible


Question: ungovernability abolitionist way of life

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible


Question: violence and the trans/queer

When we stop and stand in the violence of the world that hates us, we become nobodies in the safety of an atmosphere of voilence

Stanley 21 [Eric A. Stanley, Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory., “River of Sorrow,” in ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE STRUCTURING ANTAGONISM AND THE TRANS/QUEER UNGOVERNABLE, Introduction, Durham and London: Duke University Press, isbn 9781478013303, Bittner]

atmospheres summon colonization not simply gendered and racialized force but thick fog allows us to know little else Thinking atmospherically reminds there is no escape outside or place to hide through struggle collective life might come to be harm is coupled with, and intensified through equality central to modernity contingent upon violence’s continuation the liberal state can never be anything other an engine of brutality This opens up histories and futures of interdependency otherwise—a post-politics for the end of the world overkill produce an ontological limit of trans/queer subjectivity from chattel slavery to Pulse racial capitalism produces meaning and profits collectivizing practices offers an alternative to democracy becoming ungovernable—gender fugitives on the run by provoking unintelligibility — illustrates fierce strategies necessary for being a “ nobody against the state .” Against relentless violence becoming ungovernable, offer a way through in the  U S less bad becomes the only freedom If the attempt to a more perfect democracy is the order under which deadly force expands, ungovernability becomes an abolitionist way of life. Sylvia Rivera’s climb to the top of a terf -swarmed stage and her “Revolution now!” opened, by desecrating the political, cleared a path through brutality she knew as democracy’s nonchoice Ungovernability finds legal application in the court system as a charge for who live in refusal being beyond that system is to find safe passage out liberation as guerrilla warfare destitute the state refusal open possibility after options disappeared materiality of survival was never singular . intimacy of aid — offered wayward community networks of care help us learn “It’s easy to be free.” ungovernability is organized yet improvisational that revels in pleasure to collectivize refusal to “get together and abolish what is going on.  undoes incremental personhood minor acts building (end of the) world while allowing for life to fill it that reminds we never struggle alone unfinished experiment in collective action builds on itself, as pedagogies of rebellion always do getting ungovernable is a map for, “becoming liberated as we speak.” There will be widespread melting of Antarctic ice shelves even if the world achieve most ambitious climate targets mitigation of emissions hav little-to-no effect If glaciers melt sea level increase 5.3 meters warm waters melting shelves is of concern Even under 1.5 ℃ Amundsen Sea heat up three times faster Ocean warming and ice- melting are not sensitive to emissions Even if we mitigate emissions reduction would not be noticeable for decades, damage may be irreversible