@MatthiasSchmelzer

You cite a new #Bertelsmannstiftung paper which proposes rationing by making use of a climate credit card. Thoughts on that:

The authors propose #rationing in the form of a personal #climatecreditcard that would manage the following products and quotas to "ensure the supply of basic goods in a resilient and climate-neutral way" as supposedly envisioned:

Household electricity from renewables: 1000kWh
Mobility only public transport: 5000km
Food only regional fruits and vegetables: 220kg
water: 20000l
Heating: 4000kWh
Living: 30sqm
Internet: 60GB

So far, so good!

But for this, Bertelsmann would ...merely cap the prices. Because they don't want to categorically rule out additional consumption... which of course exposes their ignorance of what a CO2 budget actually is:
"If the quota is used up, the usual market price for the goods must be paid" contradicts in its outcome the (alleged) desire "to ensure the supply of basic goods in a resilient and climate-neutral way".

Once Bertelsmannstiftung, too, knows what CO2 budget and the planetary boundaries for ecocide are, and understands that additional consumption can NOT be allowed, and even less so via rationing by market prices (How their particular ideology hinders them to grasp the concept of a finite budget is SO apparent in their paper...)

so when that time comes,

"then, Sir King, a second of eternity has passed"...

and today's high-tech civilization is irreparably kaput.

#Degrowth #Rationing #ClimateChange #SozialeMarktwirtschaft #Ideology