Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard-left French presidential hopeful, will pledge to raise the minimum wage and restore the country’s retirement age to 60 when he launches his 2027 election programme on Saturday.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard-left French presidential hopeful, will pledge to raise the minimum wage and restore the country’s retirement age to 60 when he launches his 2027 election programme on Saturday.
The known reserves will be gone in ~50 years (at the current rate of usage, which is only 4.3% of the worlds primary energy consumption, if we replace the 75% fossil fuels with nuclear then “poof its gone” ). There will be more but it will get increasingly more difficult to extract it. Extracting Uranium from seawater is still in its laboratory phase and its far from clear it can be done economically. The long term disposal of nuclear waste is still largely unsolved.
We should only retire at 60 after we figured it all out, shouldn’t we?
But wait, do retirees use up more natural resources than working 60 year-olds or less? Working people need all the resources retirees need plus resources needed to perform work. They’d get paid more than a pension too which means they’d get to consume more on top of their work-related consumption. And their work would transform more natural resources into commodities. ☠️
The excess income is often used to keep getting to said job or spent on raising the next generation. Any reminder typically goes into a retirement savings, if your in the upper middle class anyway.
Retirees often own their homes instead of paying mortgages or rent as well.