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That's like saying rolling back environmental protection regulation will help humanity advance.
by KoolKat23 3y ago
That's like saying rolling back environmental protection regulation will help humanity advance.
- philwelch 3y agoNot at all; it’s actually far more plausible that, in many cases, rolling back environmental regulations will help humanity advance.
- KoolKat23 3y agoDepends on your limited definition of advance. Chilling in a Matrix-esque wasteland with my fancy-futuristic-gadget isn't my idea of advanced-level-humanity. May help with technological advancement, but not social or ethical advancement.
- philwelch 3y agoIt’s been known to happen that environmental regulations turn out to be ill-considered, counterproductive, entirely corrupt instances of regulatory capture by politically dominant industries, or simply poor cost-benefit tradeoffs. Gigantic pickups are a consequence of poorly considered environmental regulations in the United States, for instance.
- KoolKat23 3y agoTrue, at their core though, those aren't environmental at their heart but rather something else green-washed, be it corruption, subsidisation or something else.