ABSTRACT
The climate protection movement has had little trouble portraying the dangers of climate change, but it has had far more difficulty providing a credible plan to transition to a climate-safe economy without mass unemployment and economic catastrophe. The government led approach often uses the economic mobilization for World War II as a touchstone either to show the feasibility of rapid and massive economic change, or to reveal the evils of a 'command economy' that interferes radically with the private market. Fortunately, two recent papers by Laurence L. Delina and Mark Diesendorf examine the World War II mobilization and suggest what lessons-positive and negative can be drawn from it for rapid reduction of GHG emissions. Finally, the chapter concludes to fit our economic activity to the real needs of people and the environment, which requires both regulating our overall level of economic activity and radically shifting.
