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I don’t think any Soviet disaster is as much as we have paid and will pay for climate change. Hundreds of billions of dollars of damage a year & Trillions of do
by dv_dt 3y ago
I don’t think any Soviet disaster is as much as we have paid and will pay for climate change. Hundreds of billions of dollars of damage a year & Trillions of dollars of future damage
- creato 3y agoCommunists never burned any fossil fuels?
- dv_dt 3y agoPersonally, I think it's less of a communism or capitalism problem per se, but a representation problem of the mass of people vs a power cabal. This is a power and representation problem that neither communism nor capitalism offers particular resistance against degradation.
- eru 3y agoMore people are living better than ever before. Seems to be working.
- eru 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_change#Aggregate_impacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch... suggests aggregate economic impacts of climate change might be between 0% to 20% of world GDP. On the one hand, that's really a lot. On the other hand, that's really only a few years of growth for market economies. Soviet style disasters were a lot worse, and didn't even really do anything for their economies, I mean compared to what even moderate access to markets does. See eg https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/norilsk-russian-arctic-became-one-polluted-places-earth-rcna6481 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/norilsk-russian-arctic-be...