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Everything in those links could have been more concisely expressed in a single sentence, short enough even to make a pithy quote, drawn from one of them: "The
by throwanem 3y ago
Everything in those links could have been more concisely expressed in a single sentence, short enough even to make a pithy quote, drawn from one of them:
"The question of severe externalities is interesting and difficult, but let’s set it aside for the moment."
- dash2 3y agoThat’s completely untrue. For, example, the first of them has a lot of interesting and relevant history about how the decline of one scarce resource motivates the search for others.
- throwanem 3y agoIf you insist we also talk about the tendentiously presentist and heavily cherry-picked historiography here on display, then I suppose we can do that. Given your apparent partiality, though, I don't know why you'd want to.