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Business supremacy treaty for energy infrastructure

mardi 2 mars 2021 à 01:00

A special business supremacy treaty specifically for energy infrastructure has a ISDS clause. Under this treaty, countries must pay for permission to adopt climate policies that make foreign-owned fossil fuel infrastructure less useful.

All business-supremacy treaties are instruments to crush democracy. Countries should refuse to sign them, withdraw from them, ideally join together to cancel them out entirely.

For this treaty, one possible last-resort solution would be for countries to declare war on each other and bomb each other's fossil fuel infrastructure, disabling it from functioning. Then they could decline responsibility on the grounds that the damage was an act of war.

I don't suggest bombing the power plant into rubble — that would cause pollution — just destroying some key part of it, without which it does not operate.

Is this idea shocking? There are better ways to stop burning fossil fuels, but it is good to have this fall-back method if the others prove too difficult. Don't say it can't be done!