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Cutting emissions by regulation is a continually losing battle. You can't tell people to live a lower-quality life and expect to win elections, and you'll have
by free_rms 6y ago
Cutting emissions by regulation is a continually losing battle.
You can't tell people to live a lower-quality life and expect to win elections, and you'll have the combined lobbyists of a lot of different interests against you.
It's actually more tractable to invent fusion than to try and win that battle long-term -- at least it's theoretically possible to make fusion work. And heck, if we could put some $ in pockets while doing it, that's something that could pass!
- SiempreViernes 6y agoThe established solution is you don't tell them right out, you just make it worse for most while ensuring there are a few success stories to distract with. See for instance: war on drugs, war on terror et. al.
- free_rms 6y agoYeah, but those horrors made people rich. Cutting emissions makes nobody rich. Developing fusion, carbon recapture schemes, we need to be thinking in terms of boondoggles that get the job done.
- pfdietz 6y agoThe Clean Air Act is a clear refutation of your assertion. Benefits there exceeded costs by a factor of about 40. Fixing market failures increases economic wellbeing.