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So your preferred solution is to restrict the allowed travel radius of people, a bit like with medieval serfs?
by agent327 5y ago
So your preferred solution is to restrict the allowed travel radius of people, a bit like with medieval serfs?
- void_mint 5y agoNobody in this thread has suggested that.
- sokoloff 5y agoSomeone has now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725760
- the8472 5y agoRestrictions may not be needed. Remove subsidies and price in externalties.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoMost people dont realise that aircraft industry and fsrming use special fuel and pay no tax on it. While it makes sence that we sibsidiae cost of food, it is less clear why we subsidise airlines
- vinay427 5y ago> While it makes sence that we sibsidiae cost of food That's already a thorny subject given that most governments also subsidize food sources that are vastly inefficient and resource-intensive even in cases where reasonable alternatives exist. Meat/dairy producers are still the primary recipients of subsidies in the US and many other countries, at least in Europe. This number distinguishes between fruit/vegetables and other products, although the article apparently suggests that the use of corn/soy in meat production makes this figure more relevant: > According to recent studies, the U.S. government spends up to $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, with less than one percent of that sum allocated to aiding the production of fruits and vegetables. https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cognitive-dissonance-around-animal-agriculture https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...
- nojokes 5y agoIf intentions are the same then these still can be seen restrictions on mobility.
- pyrale 5y agoWhat a rhetoric device. Is your preferred solution to let people die in droves to a mass extinction ?
- paulcole 5y agoI don’t think it’s necessarily the commenter’s solution but it does seem to be the one the world is going all in on.
- FreeSpeech 5y agoSo what proposal do luddites put forward then? People should travel intercontinentally by ship?
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoIt's hard to take something away from people once they have already had it. Yet if we had never discovered flight then we wouldn't spend much time lamenting the lack of air travel. Instead we would get on with life within the limitations we have just like we do for other constraints.
- barney54 5y agoWhat mass extinction? From climate change? Has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that because I’ve never seen that as a scientific claim.
- pyrale 5y agoWe are currently going through a well-documented extinction[1]. It's not recent in human terms, but it's been accelerating recently, with industrialization. Climate change is not the only, nor the major cause in the current extinction, but it contributes. In a way, this is unfortunate: it would be easier to have only one problem. The relevant body for scientific information is not the IPCC, but the IPBES [2]. Like the IPCC, it releases reports summarizing the situation and its causes [3]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Science-Policy_Platform_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecosystem_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Science-Poli... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Assessment_Report_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecosystem_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Assessment_Report_on_Bi...
- jandrese 5y agoMaybe encourage more high speed rail instead?