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> That we don't have good measurements to reconcile that contradiction We do have many measurements to reconcile that. We know how much particulate air pollut
by danans 1y ago
> That we don't have good measurements to reconcile that contradiction
We do have many measurements to reconcile that.
We know how much particulate air pollution from fossil fuel combustion increases health care expenditures. We know how not having save places to exercise outdoors affects general health and results in sedentary lifestyle diseases.
But most of our decisions, individually and as a society, are predicated on short term convenience and gratification, not long term health, so we ignore the measures we already have.
- disgruntledphd2 1y agoYeah, but the rhetorical justification for all the crap stuff is the economy. It's weird to me that we organise our lives based on one social science and ignore all the others.
- Jensson 1y ago> It's weird to me that we organise our lives based on one social science and ignore all the others. 40-50% of most countries production goes to government projects, so no we don't ignore everything else than capitalism. We are about 50-60% capitalist at most. Note that government projects also need you to work, work is a part of every system, it isn't capitalism that forces you to work people are forced to work in socialist and communist states as well.
- disgruntledphd2 1y ago> 40-50% of most countries production goes to government projects, so no we don't ignore everything else than capitalism. We are about 50-60% capitalist at most. Sorry, I don't get how this relates to what I said. I mentioned that it's surprising that we use one model of the world to organise our society (i.e economics) and you countered that the government is part of the economy (which is trivially true, but doesn't really relate to my point). Can you help me understand what you mean here?