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> Poverty for all! Not need to be so dramatic. Upgrading one's iPhone every other year instead of every year hardly constitutes poverty. I believe that fighti
by perfunctory 8y ago
> Poverty for all!
Not need to be so dramatic. Upgrading one's iPhone every other year instead of every year hardly constitutes poverty.
I believe that fighting climate change vs quality of life is false dichotomy. We can do both. See this comment for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19267752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19267752
- barry-cotter 8y agoI absolutely despise America’s car centric planning and do not plan to ever live there. I too would much prefer to live some place where you can bike all over the place. Good luck convincing Midwesterners or Texans who think nothing of driving someplace for four hours that a massive gas tax is worth it. Good luck convincing everyone in the suburbs to abandon their homes to move into a city. Good luck convincing people used to taking two holidays to the suna year that they can have one every two years. What I think or you think does not matter. What the median voter thinks matters and if you try to make them consume less outside of a war they will vote you out.
- perfunctory 8y agoSo, moral equivalent of war is the only option then?
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoYou can't just call something a war and make it so that people are willing to sacrifice for it, even if you think the threat is equivalent (or greater) to that of actual warfare. See the war on poverty and the war on drugs for an example. Do you really think Americans would have turned their lives upside down to win the war on poverty?