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They wouldn't argue we should stop improving technology. It's my claim that the consequence of their politics would be to stop growth. Environmentalist are agai
by ThomPete 8y ago
They wouldn't argue we should stop improving technology. It's my claim that the consequence of their politics would be to stop growth. Environmentalist are against humans making an impact on nature and consider nature sacred.
That excess you see in Vegas is also paying the bills it's part of the growth. That's the point. You can't isolate them and have non-impact on nature and then at the same time growing the economy.
Should we also regulate the internet? How much of our use is excess? Is this discussion excess? Are 99% of discussion on the internet excess is posting images excess?
Once you start digging into it you realize that these things can't be isolated.
This is why it's better to let the market play it out as it will optimize local needs. It's far from perfect to the extent that it's useless but it beats all the other ways we have at least to my understanding and I haven't heard of any other and better solution than let growth play out and produce surplus and then use some of that to be better and better.
- polotics 8y agoYou wrote: "This is why it's better to let the market play it out as it will optimize local needs" Do you know about the concept of externalities?
- ThomPete 8y agoYup one of the areas where it's most underrepresented is when it comes to exponential growth of technology. In other words, climate discussion also has externalities that it doesn't consider.
- polotics 8y agoGreat, please send me the link to those studies. Right now as far as I know it is very clear cut where the ignored externalities lie: island nations going under (Kiribati, check out Anote's Ark), civil strife with a climate component spilling over (check out Syria last ten years), hurricanes and floods frequencies way above historical records (soon in an abandonned mall nearby)