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Sounds like a good opportunity to drive more economic growth and create more jobs to have to do it all over again for a new climate.
by SirMaster 2y ago
Sounds like a good opportunity to drive more economic growth and create more jobs to have to do it all over again for a new climate.
- jl6 2y agoBroken civilization theory > broken windows theory.
- Pet_Ant 2y agoI cannot tell if that is a joke or not. I could see it both being said sincerely and sarcastically.
- SirMaster 2y agoHaha, that was intended.
- taylodl 2y agoBut that requires energy and materials which, if not managed properly, will make the problem even worse. Politically speaking, the biggest challenge to us is mass migrations may be required in order to adapt to the changing climate. Such migrations are rarely peaceful.
- lenerdenator 2y agoBut then you inconvenience incumbents who expect to be able to retire to Florida on the value generated by capital that was allocated without regard to the impact that humans have on the planet's climate.
- aetherson 2y agoYou don't drive economic growth by rebuilding infrastructure that already existed, but now in the wrong place. You might "create jobs" that way in the general sense of stimulating an economy by borrowing against future monies, and that may be helpful in smoothing out a business cycle or avoiding a negative feedback loop, but "creating jobs" is only useful when the economy is understimulated (which it isn't at this particular moment, though I'm sure it will be again at various times between now and say 2100). You increase the size of the economy, rather than just smooth out the business cycle, by increasing the net productivity of the population.