Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "'Fit for 55': EU unveils major reforms to cut CO2 emissions | DW News" video.

@jaimejimenez4199 you mean a mess that took over a century to make didn't go away in a single year??? Wow I am so shocked.
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We don't need carbon taxes we need to end tax subsidies for the ff industry and build renewable energy infrastructure.
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We need to actually build new infrastructure that is based on renewable energy and electricity everything. That is how simply taxing the working class isn't enough it does nothing to fix the real problem a society committing genocide with our energy sector.
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@maxjakcker3273 with that additude you might as well just roll over and join the dinosaurs as you won't end the 6th mass extinction event that has already started. I will hold out hope that as a species we are smart enough to avoid our own extinction. But then I am bias I want to avoid death a little longer.
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@Amatya Ucran because the rest of the world outsourced our manufacturing and those our carbon footprint to Asia. Caplistist hard at work chasing profit over all else. Not to mention that per capita the USA still has a worse carbon footprint. But compare 360 million to 1.398 billion humans. I mean the fact that they have more than 1 billion more people living in china might mean in raw numbers they would use more energy than the USA
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What is needed is the green new deal. Renewable energy infrastructure jobs for the working class not neoliberalism forcing more taxes on the working class hoping the magically free market will fix things. The caplistist free market is what made the climate crisis in the first place. You can't expect a system that created the problem to fix it.
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You are saying the cost of fuel went up by 700% and the demand for fuel was not impacted at all??? I don't know what your budget looks like but mine definitely wouldn't support that type of price increase inside a decade
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Nuclear power is literally the most expensive form of new energy generation. The free market has spoken nuclear power lost get over it.
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@chuckdawit have you followed the cost reductions in renewable energy over the last decade? You might as well give up on the ICE because the first prototypes of the Model T failed to meet modern standards If you mean that the German government lacked the political will to end ff subsidies that only proves we need to have better leadership.
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Too bad the same owner class peoblems exist the world over. Taxing the working class isn't the answer. Government funded renewable energy infrastructure and jobs for the working class is the solution. But global neoliberalism means what we get is taxes on the working class
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Nuclear is literally the most expensive form of new energy generation. It would be crazy to build the most expensive form. Wind solar and storage are cheaper and the future based on ecominic alone.
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All nations need to do all they can to be 100% renewable energy. The global nature of the climate crisis doesn't care who emits carbon.
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The Chinese government is why solar is cheap now. They literally spent a decade or more building the manufacturing capacity at the government costs. I was in Tiawan when the program ended. The Chinese government had literally covered all costs to setup solar factories and cover one years labor costs for any company that could get contracts for solar manufacturing production lines.
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I am pretty sure buying an EV will do both as they have far fewer moving parts and fewer repairs plus they get rid of that exhaust system that is expensive to replace and pumps out CO2
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Konsta T Pashion it was government funding that made the vast majority of all new technology in the last century. Solar panels are from NASA needing energy for space exploration. Made cost effective by the China government funding manufacturing capacity. The amount of technology that comes from DARPA is almost endless including the cell phones and flat screens. Ronald Reagan's star wars program funded the micro chip revolution. So tell me what solutions are you thinking of that the private sector developed without government funding? Because I can't think of any.
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Don't worry Mitch McConnell is safe
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You can't afford an ICE car either than because the Tesla Model 3 has a lower total cost of ownership than an ICE.
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Last time I checked we didn't actually have a single world government.
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@desertmandan123 maybe the USA should end their embargo on Cuba than...
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@faber7507 nuclear waste will kill humans for over a century. We know for a fact that in 80 years time there will have to be a 3 containment building built around Chernobyl. Not to mention all the spent nuclear waste in the USA sitting at the sites of all the dismantled nuclear power plants. It is a disaster waiting to happen and a burden left on untold generations yet to be born. Nuclear power was a bad idea when it was first dreamed up and a worse idea now that we have less expensive less dangerous alternatives. Dumping money into nuclear power is the definition of government waste and fraud.
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@VFPn96kQT nuclear waste lasts longer than the human species has walked on planet earth. It doesn't matter how physically small it is if it is highly deadly and last forever you are making an ever increasing death threat for our planet.
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@faber7507 but we have solar and wind that don't make nuclear waste or climate change. So only a paid troll would advocate for nuclear power which is the most expensive solution. Welcome to the mute list for nuclear trolls.
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@VFPn96kQT waste from solar panels? You mean sand and cement from wind turbines. Or fiberglass which is ground down into sand. Wow what a massive problem you better avoid the beach... Show me the solar far exclusion zone like we see with nuclear power. Yes for a few decades of power we have places on earth no humans can ever live again. Talk about wasteful. Nuclear is dead the free market killed it.
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@VFPn96kQT solar panels are not an exclusion zone they are roofs. Chernobyl and Fukushima are exclusion zones because people die from the radioactive waste there. You are making bad faith arguments. It is hard to convince someone of something they have a financial obligation to not believe. This is how you behave so welcome to the mute list for trolls
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@Amatya Ucran nope ending ff industry subsidies would put the burden on the companies and be far more productive as they have the resources to address the problem not taxing the working class. Taxing the people with the least power is the worse way to address the peoblem.
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@Amatya Ucran that is a great idea and easiest to do by ending the tax subsidies to companies. Unfortunately this video isn't about taxing the companies it is a carbon tax on the consumer not the producer
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@ksztyrix I think a business profits tax is paid from the profits. The history of the USA proves this point from the 40s through the 60s we taxed corporations and the wealthy. There was a golden age of growth for the working class. In the 80s Ronald Reagan and trickle down economics flip that to taxing the working class not the wealthy and we saw the creation of the rust belt as the barrons of industry took their tax cuts and built factories over seas.
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@ksztyrix taxes on their profits force them to reinvest those same dollars into the company be that labor force with better pay and benefits to improve the worker satisfaction and performance or to reinvest in the company itself in the form of new equipment which means more economic growth for the companies supplying the new manufacturing equipment. This is proven in the history of the USA. We saw more growth when it was in the companies interests to provide for the workers and invest in the company or pay taxes to the government. We lowered their tax burden in the age of Republican trickle down economics and saw the growth of billionaires and stock buybacks while workers pay stagnated and jobs where exported. The history is clear we tax the wealthy they invest in their workers and companies we don't tax the wealthy the take the money for their own greed. You just refuse to learn the lessons of the last century.
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@ksztyrix wow you tries hard to make a strawman argument there be careful you will give yourself a headache trying so hard to miss the point someone makes
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@justaguy113 well when the developed nations stop using ff something will happen because the economy of scale will end the era of cheap ff.
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@phyarth8082 the middle east should blame themselves. They where the supplies of the ff that caused the climate crisis
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@maxjakcker3273 we are definitely smart enough to change. It was our able to change things including our own lifestyle that got us into this mess over the last century or so. It isn't a question of intelligence it is a question of greed by the very few at the top vs the livelihood of our entire species. It is something like the top 10% wealth wise are responsible for more than half our carbon emissions. So the majority of the problem is a very small percentage of humanity's greed.
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@littlefinger4509 360 million people in the USA, 1.398 billion people in china. When you have to use a different order of magnitude to count the people raw numbers don't tell you anything useful. Or another figure the top 1% of wealthy on planet earth produce more than twice the emmisions of the poorest 3.5 billion people. Only by looking at the per capita can you see that it is a lifestyle caused peoblem.
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@littlefinger4509 you are intentionally missing the point the problem is the top 1% who generate more pollution than the bottom 3.5 billion humans on planet earth. The wealthy have to change their lifestyle because it is what caused the climate crisis. This isn't nature it is a man made climate crisis caused by a pollution based lifestyle of luxury for the wealthy
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@littlefinger4509 again you intentionally miss represent the science. Of course there are natural sources of greenhouse gases but the science is clear the climate crisis is human caused. I am force to conclude that you are in the category of it is impossible to convince someone of something if their income is dependent on them not according it.
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Last time I checked the oceans where not drying up.
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@justingignac4715 well absorbing all that carbon is causing those things so your comment and the OP seem are odds with each other.
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RIP ¡ where do you get communist out of wanting more jobs for the working class not more taxes on the working class???
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Konsta T Pashion how does building the lowest cost new energy which is rapidly becoming less expensive than using ff going to drive up the costs? Wind and solar are less expensive because there are no profits for nature like there is for the ff industry. All the profits for ExxonMobil and the coal mining companies are reduced cost when the wind and sun doesn't bill you for raw materials. I know I have an off grid solar system because it cut my energy bill in half compared to my for profit power company.
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Konsta T Pashion which is why I was able to name government funded solutions and you where able to make vague peopaganda statements about how great the profit based system is. Got it.
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Konsta T Pashion we have these things called batteries to stabilize wind and solar they work great in my off grid system my power is more stable than when I was on the grid. But Texas has recently showed us that ff based power grids are not stable in mildly cold or hot conditions under deregulated caplistist management. You know those for profit caplistist companies that turned up people's AC temperature to 85F to keep their profits maximized during the heat wave instead of building more reliable infrastructure
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Konsta T Pashion how can people not afford to save money? It isn't too hard banks are more than happy to loan home owners against their assets and in my case it lowered the bill in half so I couldn't afford not to do it. Because I was literally paying the power company more that the bank loan.
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Konsta T Pashion wow you are full of bogus facts. Did Rex Tillerson tell you that there where not enough minerals on planet earth to make grid scale batteries? Because only a person with a vested interest in the ff industry or someone totally ignorant of what elements on planet earth can be used to store electricity would make such a wrong statement.
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Konsta T Pashion you seem to have a hard time understanding that being off grid and paying back the bank has cut my monthly bill in half. So no it isn't expensive today to be off grid it is the financially responsible thing to do unless you like paying more for your electricity.
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Konsta T Pashion to give you some perspective on the batteries. An EV has 10x the battery capacity of my home storage system. The automotive industry those caplistist you admire are rapidly switching to batteries 10x the demand you don't believe we have enough raw materials to make. Clearly they disagree with your assessment of raw materials
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@kushalvora7682 LTO is the solution to batteries they last 30,000 cycles and Canada has both lithium and Titanium to make them out of. They also don't suffer from the cold weather issues other batteries have
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@Flamdring I agree but at this point I think all you need to do is end the subdies for ff. Wind and solar are already the cheapest new energy generation. I can see using government funding for building infrastructure like charging stations and HVDC power grids though. I always think about what an impressive depression era project the Hover dam was. That had real return on investment both by employing people and by providing a century of power.
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So without a world government you don't want anything done. Wow
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