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Did your game theory teacher have any ideas for a type of government or society that could be expected to do a better job with climate change? Climate change se
by baddox 12y ago
Did your game theory teacher have any ideas for a type of government or society that could be expected to do a better job with climate change? Climate change seems like the final boss of the public good problem, and I can't think of any society likely to do a very good job with it (without some sci-fi paradigm shift).
Functioning democracy, by which I mean a government whose policies closely match the desires of its population with each individual weighted equally, should be expected to do a bad job, because each individual accurately estimates that he or she is better off voting to not solve climate change.
Dictatorships or non-functioning democracies, by which I mean governments whose policies are determined by a small group of people, should be expected to do a bad job, for the usual and obvious reasons.