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The alternative is an unknown tail risk of unmitigated climate change. The decision isn't "98 or 100% GDP", its take a hit now, or increase risk of ecosystem co
by DeRock 3y ago
The alternative is an unknown tail risk of unmitigated climate change. The decision isn't "98 or 100% GDP", its take a hit now, or increase risk of ecosystem collapse in the future.
- gjsman-1000 3y ago> unmitigated climate change So we'll do this to counter an unknown tail risk. I would argue, in my mind, that technology and AI is moving way too fast, and the current solutions to the climate issue are not feasible politically. People don't care. A more optimistic approach would be to wait and see what technology can bring us in the next 20 years or so to solve the problem instead of trying to rush today's inadequate solutions to market. Imagine if we had begun trying to solve the climate crisis in a radical manner 20 years ago, back when we had Windows XP, ludicrously expensive and shorter lasting solar panels, no practical large lithium-ion batteries, etc. It would be impossible. I think it's about as equally impossible today for what we'll have in the future.
- wpietri 3y agoWhy do you think solar panels and batteries and computers improved so much over the last 20 years? I'm pretty sure it wasn't because people said, "This stuff isn't very good, so let's not buy any of it and just wait for 20 years to see if it gets better."
- explorer83 3y agoI call this "hope" and I consider myself "hopeful".
- jjoonathan 3y agoThe problem with chasing tail risks is that there are an awful lot of them and our track record at picking the important ones is rather poor.