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In your book, what counts as fixing climate while preserving human rights and dignity?
by Dumblydorr 5y ago
In your book, what counts as fixing climate while preserving human rights and dignity?
- mrfusion 5y agoGood question. I could do some examples. Good: carbon tax or cap and trade (ideally revenue neutral). Electric car subsidies. Bad: climate lockdowns. Restricting travel. Travel credits. Social credit score tied to climate behavior. (This stuff keeps me up at night) So bottom line: Following this https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... and this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights and you’re fine in my book. But that’s not an assumption I make these days.
- treebot 5y agoWhat about just nationalizing the entire energy industry and everything related, instead of trying to work within the parameters of a free market for something with so many externalities?
- mrfusion 5y agoInteresting. It’s possible the government could run it well but I would worry without a profit motive they might not adjust to supply and demand quickly and might not pursue new technologies like fusion.
- advanced-DnD 5y agofission and fusion did not begin with private interest at heart. Not everything should be profit motivated, especially with public goods.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
- FormhellFrom 5y agoenergy research is typically publicly funded, no? With a profit motive, why would you even do anything besides the easiest and cheapest option of burning fossil fuels? Fusion research, especially, is so pie-in-the-sky right now that I doubt any profit-motivated company would even touch it with a 10 foot pole.