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RE: Ideological Failures at Addressing Climate Change
Good post. Some minor things:
Folks not reading your essay closely may take from this that all ideologies are equally terrible at managing environmental issues. That is baloney. Ideologies favor different governmental forms, and some governmental forms have mechanisms for managing the commons (democracy, autocracy), while some mostly don't (plutocracy, adversarial anarchy).
Teddy Roosevelt, like Lincoln, was a left wing progressive. By the time Teddy Roosevelt took power, the Republican Party has already started to drift rightward, and was ideologically mixed.
Norway's economy is substantially boosted by hydrocarbons. This is not the case for the rest of Scandinavia.
All fair cops! I should note that this is definitely targeted primarily at the "replacing capitalism with socialism will cure our environmental ills" crowd, so I intended the message to be a little blunt.
As a socialist myself, I agree, though maybe for sightly different reasons. For example: Washington State almost passed a carbon tax (basically the only realistic way to tackle climate change under modern regulated capitalism), but it was opposed by the left for not being the result of a justice-oriented process or something like that. The leftward part of the coalition that stopped the tax from being passed revealed where the environment falls in their priorities by doing so.
Yep! Exactly the sort of stuff I'm talking about.