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Do you think that $34 billion could save, say, more than 89 people if spent on a more effective plan?
by reissbaker 4y ago
Do you think that $34 billion could save, say, more than 89 people if spent on a more effective plan?
- adrianN 4y agoSure, you could spend the money to build renewables and electrify some developing nation. But it would be a hard political sale to ask two million Californians to spend a couple thousand dollars to help people in Africa or wherever.
- apple4ever 4y agoToo often people forget to make this type of calculation. I get it - it sucks to have to make that type of choice! But in a world with limited resources - of which the cost is just an indirect indication of - we have to. We need to better understand the downsides and alternatives of proposed, not just the upsides. We need to not call people who point them out "killers who hate the environment" and instead listen and work together toward the best solution possible, not the one that sounds the best without understand the details.