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Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

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I'll Give You My Ox if You Give Me a Loaf of Bread

We are in a global capitalist system. We've only got ten years, and what i want is not going to come to pass by a waving of the wand or by a thought exercise. There's tons of money. And people are looking at weird things, like, maybe i'll buy some bitcoin, and then i can sell before it pops. I saw lots of private capital coming there, going, how can we green the world fast enough to avoid catastrophe by investing? It was more important to grow green than to go green. So im you know, post capitalism one day but what we need right now is government intervention big time. The two together are both crucially necessary for our future

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