It’s not enough that everyone benefits. Everyone has to benefit by exactly the same amount.
From The Babbling Beaver, an MIT focused satire site: MIT environmental scientists despair over inability to prevent windmill racism
Unsurprisingly, these woke MIT ’scientists’ have little imagination, and less literary knowledge.
The solution is found in Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron.
Applied to this new social justice outrage, it would simply require forcing the oppressors to install pollution generators in their houses, and add small bypass valves in their cars to leak exhaust fumes into the cabin. If they have an EV, make them carry a small, lit coal burner. That coal thing is a good equity idea anyway, until we get more nukes.
On the other hand, we’ll need to have speakers placed in the homes in ‘communities of color’ to make the sound of wind turbines, and quite a few pigeons (however many it takes to be equivalent to the Bald Eagles, Condors, etc. which fly into windmills) will have to be put into blenders in the ‘disadvantaged communities.’
Then everyone will be more equal.
Implicit in the actual article is an increased cost for electricity. The pollution discrepancy might persist no matter what, but at least we can raise the price for everyone. Then we can complain about electricity affordability for the poor. The MIT gurus didn’t mention this, it’s one of those Bastiat* ‘unseens.’
*Dead, white male. Son of a successful capitalist. Member of the French National Assembly… I.e., a prominent oppressor.