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Since LHC isn't a vanity project your whole argument breaks down. Also, climate change is largely not a topic for science, but for politics. Politicians know wh
by sgift 6y ago
Since LHC isn't a vanity project your whole argument breaks down. Also, climate change is largely not a topic for science, but for politics. Politicians know what to do, they just don't want to. No amount of science can fix this.
- aronpye 6y agoMy point is, if it isn’t clear, is that scientists who think the world is being put in danger by climate change shouldn’t be requesting or otherwise accept money that would be better spent combatting said existential threat. To accept money on huge projects with no clear benefit to humanity when there are much more pressing matters at hand is either to deny those problems don’t exist or act with hypocrisy. P.S. spending money on something that adds no clear value is the definition of a vanity project. P.P.S. My argument also doesn’t hinge on whether the LHC or its successor is a vanity project or not, I think we can all agree spending 20bn+ on lifting people out of poverty or combatting climate change is a much more worthy recipient of tax payer dollars.
- rossvor 6y agoFollowing your logic we should just give up spending any money on any non climate science. Science is what enabled us to lift billions out of poverty in the first place.
- aronpye 6y agoActually the washing machine and basic sanitation is what has lifted a large part of the world out of poverty, not high energy physics.