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the number of cars should go down

If there is a commodity into which the marketcrafting transition strategy crystallizes—and there is—it’s the electric vehicle. While the IRA’s tax credits for energy generation are agnostic, the extensive support for EVs is specific. Despite creating all sorts of international problems, cars are th…

—p.68 What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis Marketcraft (29) by Malcolm Harris
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freezing the consumption of everyone in the world

In the English language, few critics have tackled this issue as well as Max Ajl, whose 2021 book, A People’s Green New Deal, refuses to shy away from the global nature of the questions at hand. “Much of left-liberal climate talk is based on administering rather than eliminating capitalism,” he writ…

—p.61 Marketcraft (29) by Malcolm Harris
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challenging private jet usage just on principle

And yet the number of global private flights was at an all-time high in 2022—5.4 million.26 Of these, an 85 percent supermajority are private flights within the United States, jaunts of climate-destroying, carbon-intensive convenience taken by the American 1 percent, making up around one-sixth of t…

—p.48 Marketcraft (29) by Malcolm Harris
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it's nonsensical to blame the workers of Chad

If Shell isn’t willing to plan to lose money, should we expect the Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad to behave differently? The largest economies hope not, because they’ve continued investing tens of billions of dollars a year to finance oil and gas projects in poor nations.25 It’s nonsensical to …

—p.24 Introduction (3) by Malcolm Harris
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best way to fit into the social metabolism

It’s easy to see how individuals are recruited—volunteer themselves, even—into projects that are hostile to their own existence.vii After all, every worker already does the same thing by definition, to a certain degree. Think back to the Shell example. No one wants to work at an underregulated oil …

—p.18 Introduction (3) by Malcolm Harris