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I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. Are you saying "drawing a line for crimes is hard"? Yes, lawmakers are intensely aware of that. Or are

• sokoloff 6y ago
  I'm saying that once you build up systems like this that they rarely self-dismantle once the important job is done, but rather grow, self-perpetuate, and consume whatever resources are available in an attempt to do whatever is next most appealing. No one wants 100 Chernobyl, Deepwater Horizon, Bhopal events or generalized global warming. Lots of people want their food, energy, and modern conveniences at affordable prices. Those things are inherently in tension and creating an international tribunal which can, with the benefit of hindsight and evolving viewpoints, make judgments about whether someone violated an inherently and intentionally unspecified level of environmental care 20 years previously is more than a small amount troubling to me.
• michaelt 6y ago
  (a) There could be a slippery slope to a lower quality of life - like curtailing meat production; (b) the threat of that would prevent governments from signing up; and (c) without governments signing up, the scheme won't work.