• Johan Rockstrom does not believe that a Marshall plan is feasible. He cites the rapid pace of development in India and China as a reason a Marshall plan would not work.
• To unpack this further, China and India were both countries on the other side of (white) colonialism and now are trying to catch up. Whereas historical, white colonialism marginalized both non-white, indigenous populations as well as nature, now these countries are marginalizing nature.
• To determine whether a Marshall plan by these large emitting countries would be feasible or not depends on the answer to another question:
  • Can these countries pivot to a Marshall plan of a disruptive rate of 15% ?
• We must remember, as Kevin Anderson reminds us, it is uneven. Only a small minority of the population must undergo radical decarbonization rates, namely the small minority of high carbon, elite emitters.
• What would a global Marshall plan even look like? We don't know - because the conversation is being discouraged. That's the point Kevin Anderson is making.

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quote

• Our choice to fail over the last 30 years has brought us to this position.
• And a way out of that, a way out of the Marshall Plan, is to say we can have these negative emissions
• I think we need to say that, okay that's one way out of it – if they work.
• Another way out of it is the Marshall Plan.
• And so we need to open that that dialogue up. but we've... in effect, I think the IAMs have closed that dialogue,.
• Which is one of the reasons, going back to... It would be interesting to see other parts of the world looking at this, because, I would have a guess,
  • when we say 'that's not feasible', many people elsewhere in the world are saying 'well of course it's feasible, we've been doing... we've been living like that for years!'

comment

• In rebuttal to Johan's perspective on Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs),
  • Kevin is addressing the issue of perspectival knowing, and
  • its implications on what solutions we entertain as a global society.
• The example he cites is Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) illustrates two major perspectives:
  • Johan includes NETs as he see's that without them, the transition goes from manageable to unmanageable
  • Kevin questions the inclusion of the NETs as potentially shutting down discussion about what Johan would consider an unmanageable situation
• Kevin brings up a valid point for inclusion of other voices, especially those indigenous ones who are still institutionally marginalized not only in economic and cultural spaces, but also academic and intellectual ones.
• The decolonization of academia takes on a concrete form here. Both the global and local south have lived under severe economic repression for centuries. Anderson's contention is that making do with less is something that billions of people have had to contend with for centuries as a social norm forced upon them by colonialist then post colonialist institutions.
• Inclusivity of a greater diversity of voices does play an important role in shaping the future direction of humanity.
• We should be having an open discussion about a Marshall plan and should not be afraid to go there.
  • We had it in WWII, which, while more direct threat, is not as great as the threat of climate change on all life on earth in a slightly greater time scale.
• The global and local south has a lot to teach the global and local north. For this great transition of humanity to occur likely simultaneously requires
  • radical amounts of resource transfer from the global / local north to the global / local south,and
  • radical degrowth