> a harder to predict third-order impact might be increased innovation due to lowered costs of energy, enabling humanity to out-innovate global warming. This i

> a harder to predict third-order impact might be increased innovation due to lowered costs of energy, enabling humanity to out-innovate global warming. This is already happening. Texas is building insane amounts of solar capacity because there's very little environmental regulation there, which makes solar cheap to build. Meanwhile, California is stuck with non-renewables because it's impossible to build anything new in California.