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There's no profit incentive to geoengineer or clean up anything so nothing will get fixed - at least not if the future will be a continuation of how capitalism,
by kossTKR 4y ago
There's no profit incentive to geoengineer or clean up anything so nothing will get fixed - at least not if the future will be a continuation of how capitalism, industry and geopolitics have worked literally forever - probably also biological and even physical systems if we extrapolate.
It's always boom then bust, everywhere in space and time.
That said i still hope we'll manage in some obscure way because we have no other choice!
- paulbaumgart 4y agoThis is probably true at the level of corporations, but not clearly the case at the level of countries. An interesting paper on the economics of geoengineering, if you’re curious: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18622 https://www.nber.org/papers/w18622