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I'll offer a corollary to "Create More Than You Consume": Destroy less than you create.

• gowld 6y ago
  Amazon telling the public to consume less might be dangerous for its revenue.
  • lotsofpulp 6y ago
    That's also any government trying to be "green" to address climate change, yet still issuing bonds assuming x% economic growth.
    • netrus 6y ago
      Don't you issue bonds at the market rate? What should a truly green government do instead?
      • lotsofpulp 6y ago
        Not issue bonds at all. The only response that could have made a meaningful difference to climate change in a meaningful timeframe was curtailing consumption of fossil fuels and other sources of emissions. That would necessarily curtail consumption, and hence run counter to all the economic growth assumptions that governments have used to make various promises about expectations of future quality of life. Bottom line is it’s politically impossible to address climate change. The solution would have been to tax fossil fuels sufficiently so that it would reduce emissions to whatever levels we could have afforded, but that would have caused a lot of pain in the short term with people having to give up a lot of niceties of modern life.
  • throw_nbvc1234 6y ago
    Why not take it a step further. The US govt. telling all of its citizens to 'consume less', aka don't spend as much in the economy, could cause some level of danger to the country. Or more likely, to the elected officials reelection chances.
• lvs 6y ago
  > A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be, 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eddington#Final_years_and_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eddington#Final_years_and...