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I can't tell if you mean 'rich people' or 'poor people' by that, because depending on how you look at it, I could argue both. But doesn't that mean that everyon
by roel_v 8y ago
I can't tell if you mean 'rich people' or 'poor people' by that, because depending on how you look at it, I could argue both. But doesn't that mean that everyone is at fault?
- tozeur 8y agoI don’t think OP is segmenting explicitly by income (read: singling our rich people); better segmentation could be developing vs developed country per capita, which is what I assume is more like what OP is thinking of.
- mirimir 8y agoThey presumably mean people who profit from the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
- jstanley 8y agoBut the point is that that's all of us.
- mirimir 8y agoOK, sure. But most of us aren't "aggressively exploiting this externality". We're just impressionable, and along for the ride.
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- mturmon 8y agoYes, that’s approximately what I mean. More to the point, the ones that are fighting tooth and claw to maintain the fossil fuel status quo, including blocking consideration of a carbon tax, which would be the market-based remedy to the externality in the GP comment. But also those fighting legitimate scientific inquiry into climate change, emission regulation, better fuel efficiency standards, etc.
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