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You are right, but only if you discount the more extreme solutions to those tragedy of the commons/power broker problems. There is a historically effective sol
by freshhawk 9y ago
You are right, but only if you discount the more extreme solutions to those tragedy of the commons/power broker problems.
There is a historically effective solution to those problems, the one we all hate to think about, that has a high likelihood of failure, causes massive amounts of suffering and has multi-generation length unintended consequences: violence.
- colordrops 9y agoAs I mentioned in another comment, by the time it is clear to the common person that their immediate suffering is due to climate change that could have been prevented by political means, it will have been too late. Mass uprisings typically do not overthrow governments until immediate survival is threatened.
- freshhawk 9y agoOh definitely, realistically it's not going to happen, certainly not in time. I was treating that more as a hypothetical.