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What would you suggest that humans could do to steer it away from climate change?

• inigyou 3mo ago
  Stop burning fossil fuels? It's pretty easy actually, if you were god-emperor of the world you could structure it in a way where very few fossil fuels have to be burnt. But nobody is god-emperor of the world, nobody is even god-emperor of most countries or even most large companies, people are barely president of most countries or large companies and that's the problem.
  • argentinian 3mo ago
    So we need a benign world emperor. And there's the risk of an evil world emperor.
    • inigyou 3mo ago
      We could start by letting companies have emperors, instead of letting the financial market be the emperor of almost every company. How's Valve Software doing?
      • argentinian 3mo ago
        The financial market is an expression of the incentives of investors. I think that markets are not the problem, instead the problem is that pollution is free, companies and governments can pollute or Earth without paying externalities. Blaming markets is completely missing the mark.