Instead of taking productivity and growth as the be-all-and-end-all purpose of social activity, a Left transition redistributes energy along socially equitable lines, along with the economic wealth that usually comes with the flow of energy.

absolutely. but, with the possible exception of ontario and maybe quebec, we're not even at the pre-requisite stage, yet. it's one thing to state this abstractly, and it's another thing to propose tactics to get there.

this is why the green infrastructure bank in the liberal party platform (which isn't even being discussed enough to be considered a broken promise.....i'll admit that i based my vote on the fine print, but it just demonstrates the paucity of forward-thinking options in a fairly large spectrum) was such an exciting tease: it discarded with the usual talk of "free markets" and "green capitalism" and got to the dirty business of just fucking doing it. i was so tired of hearing about incentives and tax breaks that finding somebody willing to talk about direct investment was legitimately exciting. after all, you can't talk about equitable distributions of green energy until you have an infrastructure in place to distribute it....

it's the classic paradox on the left: you want to get rid of the influence of capital and return control to the people, but you need the...capital....from capital to build the infrastructure. we're going to be running up against a lot of these same problems with the coming ubiquity of automation, in trying to democratize the distribution of resources in the oncoming robot economy. you no longer have to be an anarchist to reject marx' algorithm. but, perhaps the way out of this paradox is closer than we realize.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/beyond-petroculture-strategies-for-a-left-energy-transition