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Not to diverge too much from the article (which should be about expectation of privacy rights) and get into politics and moral philosophy, but people in Banglad
by scarmig 14y ago
Not to diverge too much from the article (which should be about expectation of privacy rights) and get into politics and moral philosophy, but people in Bangladesh could just as well be like "quit using your lightbulbs to violate our property rights."
It's not a matter of whose "rights" are going to be violated, it's a matter of configuring property rights to improve human well-being.
- glenra 14y agoFirst off, Bangladesh has been on-net gaining land mass in recent years. Quote: "Satellite images of Bangladesh over the past 32 years show that the country is growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles)" (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7532949.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7532949.stm ) Now, it's true that that article claims that eventually sea level rise will overcome this, but the rate of sea level rise has actually not been accelerating in accordance with the predictions made back then - sea level has been continuing to rise at about the same low rate it had been doing for the last century. (Um, here's one source on that: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/current-wisdom-no-climaterelated-acceleration-sea-level-rise http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/current-wisdom-n... ) In short, if the people of Bangladesh have any reason to be concerned about "our lightbulbs", it's a distant future concern, not a current one.