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World GDP is >100T/year. US ~28T/year If it was so important and urgent in people's mind. They would have stop wasting electricity, eating so much beef, wearing

• spencerflem 3y ago
  People would drive less if we didn't keep building everything to be only accessible via roads, would eat less beef if we didn't subsidize it, and would waste less electricity if carbon taxes made it cost the true amount. And it would feel less like a burden because everyone would be doing it too, so you don't have to put up with the unjustice of other people getting richer off your sacrifices. While I'm all for trying to lower your individual consumption, asking everyone nicely to use less WILL NOT solve the problem, the same way asking companies to use less won't either. This is a coordination problem and can only be solved by governmental action.
  • sham1 3y ago
    And the fun part is that there are many folks out there, that still argue that there's no need for climate regulation for example, because left to its own devices, the free market will do the "right thing." But clearly because of the tragedy of the commons and things such as the climate often being seen as an externality, you need something external like governmental regulation to make sure that the right thing is done. Of course it doesn't help that governments tend to also be annoyingly inept at this, but at least they have more of a chance to get something done for this.
• quickthrower2 3y ago
  Tragedy of the commons.