Ekologija

Mór Thököly wrote:I kako to funkcioniše?

(I'll get me coat)

Belgrade: the city where dirty air is seen as a ‘consequence of economic growth’  
Critics decry lack of political will in Serbian capital to clean polluted air that residents say they can ‘feel and taste’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/22/belgrade-serbia-air-pollution?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Ima li živih u Ugrinovačkoj? pic.twitter.com/iH5XcqWhNC

— Borhes (@borhesbg) November 20, 2023

So what exactly is the rationale of the IRA? It is not a straightforward Keynesian bill to lift aggregate demand. Aggregate demand is doing just fine, as seen in the low unemployment numbers. In fact, given that we have experienced high inflation recently, there may well be too much aggregate demand in the economy. We cannot but conclude that the IRA is not really a macroeconomic stimulus policy at all. Instead, it is aimed at something else entirely. It appears to be a radical attempt to restructure the American economy in line with green ideology. This raises two related questions: First, how has the green lobby acquired such awesome power in the past two decades? Second, what is their rationale for wielding this power? It is only by answering these two questions that we can understand where the virtue premium in lobbying came from.

The green lobby appears distinct from other industry lobbies, like defense or pharma, both in terms of its lobbying model and popular perceptions. Consider one of the most common and long-standing “folk conspiracy theories” in the United States: that of the American military-industrial complex secretly pulling the strings. The theory holds that Lockheed Martin or Raytheon use their profits to bribe politicians to increase spending on defense, spending that can then be transformed into profits for these companies, which in turn is recycled into even more lobbying, leading to a self-licking ice cream cone of cronyism and subsidy. Put another way, when people say that defense contractors run America, they imagine that this is done through a fairly simple pay-to-play scheme: a powerful industry with lots of money uses its resources to influence politicians, who then use their offices in order to entrench that industry and make it ever-more powerful.

Whatever one may say about the truth-value of this narrative (or how much the wishes of defense contractors actually govern U.S. policymaking), it is obviously insufficient to explain the subsidies that are today going to various green companies. In the defense industry case, the large industry precedes the political lobby; for the green industry, the political lobby precedes the formation and growth of the industry itself. The idea that American solar panel start-ups or algal biodiesel companies could somehow muster enough institutional heft to grab the reins of the U.S. political process behind the scenes is simply not credible; most of these companies are fragile hothouse plants, only capable of surviving in an environment of cheap credit and generous government subsidies. Thus, the question that really needs to be asked is why, exactly, has the green lobby been so successful in securing state support, even without much in the way of an actual industry to support it? Why is this industry able to extract vast quantities of money from Congress with much lighter lobbying expenditure than similar industries? Or, to put it in even more basic terms, what’s actually in it for the politicians?

Sa'će polovina ove mreže da napiše kako je kačenje ove slike "autošovinizam" i "drugosrbijanštija" pic.twitter.com/mYs4pszyK3

— Eko Straža (@EkoStraza) February 1, 2024

UNBELIEVABLE !
30c AT NIGHT IN GREECE
HISTORIC EVENT REWRITES EUROPEAN CLIMATIC HISTORY
at 6:40am this morning Sisi,Crete was at 30.0
Europe will live some extraordinary with hundreds of records beaten with extreme margins.
Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/IRZQhct3SS

— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 28, 2024

Bijela kod Mostara.
Neki stručnjaci vršili miniranje i ode dio brda ..
Sreća pa nije bilo ljudi jer je izbjegnuta velika katastrofa.
Ekološka je već učinjena. pic.twitter.com/2TdKw0Npvl

— SKemp (@Kemp40S) April 7, 2024