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human
CMV: The free market isn't going to save the planet

Let's be real, all these "green" ´products and no straws/plastics bags are just for show, they don't do anything meaningful against climate change.

We are too far gone to expect the free market to come up with solutions that we needed to implement decades ago. And that's assuming corporations even want to solve it at all, most seem on the path of make money and screw the planet.

Right now our best chance is massive government intervention, something like a ww2 homefront situation where rationing and other measures are taken. For example, this could help reducing the massive demand on meat that drives deforestation, water pollution and many other problems. Same with air travel for tourism.

Governments during ww2 didn't give a crap if you couldn't eat whatever you wanted all year long or travel long distances to visit relatives.

Their answer was "we are on a crisis so deal with it", that's what we need right now.
gpt
The free market optimizes within the constraints set by the government.

If the government isn’t creating the right incentive structure, yeah - we’re gonna have a problem.  

But the free market is still a powerful force even if government isn’t optimal.  The tipping point to a greener technology becoming cheaper creates a lot of good - and we’re seeing that with green energy and batteries, as well as artificial meat and more efficient lab farming.