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Alternatively - capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with the fight against climate change. It will take something more like a war-economy, with the free market reigned in, lots of command and control and lots of government rules.

Both the left and the right realise this. It's just that the left are happy about this and the right are not (and would rather burn everything to the ground instead).

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Capitalism and incentives for companies and private citizens are the only way we will defeat climate change. If you think we'd have no climate change if we were all state owned or communists, you're naive. Also, your framing that the only way to give defeat something is to give up essential freedoms and have a command-and-control economy creates more pushback to the idea of even fighting climate change. You're just feeding right into the narrative that the entire thing is about control. Humans have conquered tons of things with markets and incentives, and we will do it again, without falling into a totalitarian regime.

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