Nothing says communism like queuing up for stuff. Remember Bernie Sanders classic line about food lines? Well, a new study published in the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment claims that lining up like hungry communists will not only make us happy to get food, it will help stop climate change.
Nathan Wood, Rob Lawlor, and Josie Freear say rationing worked during World War II, so people should be fine with it to fight the new threat of climate change.
The authors argue that, “The rejection of markets, and a commitment to fair shares, is a key part of the value of rationing, and precisely what made rationing attractive to the public in the 1940s.” Then they use empirical evidence from the United States and Britain to show how when a country is at war, governments are forced to invoke some totalitarian measures that resemble communism, and the populace willingly accepts being […]
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