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Convoluted market-based drivel. We need some degree of command and control to achieve climate security. Markets are too inefficient.
by selimnairb 6y ago
Convoluted market-based drivel. We need some degree of command and control to achieve climate security. Markets are too inefficient.
- arcticbull 6y agoMarkets tend not to price in externalities they can avoid, sadly. They’re great at lots of things but sometimes they need a finger to help balance the scales.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago> command and control That's a very strange phrasing.
- krrrh 6y agoIt’s a very common term of art when contrasting regulatory approaches in the environmental space. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control_regulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control_regulati...
- Grustaf 6y agoMarkets are very efficient, but if there's no cost to pollution then there's nothing to optimize or compete about. If companies had to pay the actual environmental costs of what they are doing then they would find better ways to do them in an instant, just like they have come up with incredibly efficient ways to spin yarn, build cars and everything in between.
- DennisP 6y agoIf you have a reliable plan for getting governments to actually do that, great. We've been trying for decades now. Until it happens it's just rainbows and unicorns and we need to do what we can without them.