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>Projects like the "car with ultra-high gas mileage" are instances of a very unproductive mentality when it comes to responsible environmental stewardship This
by youngerdryas 14y ago
>Projects like the "car with ultra-high gas mileage" are instances of a very unproductive mentality when it comes to responsible environmental stewardship
This is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. To a partisan all pragmatism is bad.
- SilasX 14y agoIt's more like "feel-good being the enemy of the good". Without other good policies, a more efficient car has ~zero expected benefit. With the other good policies, the more efficient car is marginally relevant. Pure, unadulterated feel-good-ism.
- youngerdryas 14y agoBetter fuel efficiency is bad. Welcome to bizarro world!
- SilasX 14y agoThe bizarro world where improved efficiency of coal use led to more coal use, rather than people miraculously keeping the same pattern of behavior despite the increased utility of using coal? The bizarro world where nobody ever increases their fuel use in response to its greater effectiveness of use? The bizarro world where people can feel like they've said something insightful simply because they're advocating greater fuel efficiency regardless of how poorly they understand the system in which it operates?
- youngerdryas 14y agoApparently less efficiency would be better. I think we're done here.
- ori_b 14y agoIf your goal is purely to reduce amount of oil being burned, then making it impractically expensive to use oil-burning machines works. Making them extremely inefficient is one way to go about this.
- youngerdryas 14y agoMaking things inefficient is for corrupt officials.
- SilasX 14y agoYou're certainly done thinking carefully about the issue, and have been for a while...