During WW2, we had War Bonds. How about Climate Change Bonds?

[Yavin4]

I'm just throwing this idea out there. I'm pretty sure that it will be dragged down, but what about creating a fund that can be used to mitigate climate change and provide financial relief for the effects of climate change?

Folks could buy a bond which would pay them tax free interest.

Or, is this a dumb idea?

[soothsayer]

1. I'm a fan of savings bonds. Count me in!

[msongs]

2. financial relief for exactly what...and for who? nt

[Yavin4]

6. For states to modernize their power grid.

For relief from severe weather events.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Sometimes the old ideas are the best ideas...nt

[c-rational]

4. I'm in, especially if they fund something that will actually help - like nuclear power. They could

also help build infrastructure to withstand the coming onslaughts of weather and mitigate the human suffering until we come to our common senses.

[Oldem]

5. I'm in, but

to extend your comparison, we're still in the isolation phase: "that's their war; we want no part of it." This country puts up a stop sign after there have been five deaths at an intersection. You'd think that the mounting disasters would sway enough minds. But not yet. A bond drive is successful when everybody is behind it.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Funny how it comes back to Texas. There was a Texas oil company selling war bonds and oil to Germany

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They would advertise the sale of war bonds all the while their Brazilian operation was shipping oil to Nazi Germany and prolonging the war for over half of a year. When the war was over, the head of the company justified it by saying, "War is war and Business is business."

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[greenjar_01]

8. Most people agreed there was a war on

[Yavin4]

9. WWII was not as popular as we like to think that it was.

A lot of Americans didn't want us in the war.

[greenjar_01]

10. After Pearl Harbor, the war was overwhelmingly favored

The isolationists factions essentially collapsed on December 7, 1941.