Fracking. Are you for it or against it?

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10. that 20 years has been too slow -- we need a RAPID WWII type transformation

clearly if we wait for 'markets' (heavily tilted towards subsidized fossil fuels) it would take decades further. The climate crisis requires that the WHOLE PLANET get to NET NEGATIVE GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS and fast. How fast? As fast as is technically feasible, given a command change from the top -- even if it is costly. Remember that the COSTLY WWII actually spurred the economy forward, in contrast w/an host of RW & neoliberal doomsayers on a renewable transformation.

We do not have decades before climate change goes from being merely past the tipping point (350 ppm CO2 GHG equivalent) and get to a point of no return. The latter would be costly and disastrous not stimulative. The US should do most of the transformation in a few years, prod the EU & Japan to follow suit, all while financing a similarly rapid transition in the 3d World. Once these policies are well underway, these regions could unite to put huge trade pressure on China, so that they will be economically required to follow suit as rapidly as they humanly can