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> In my mind, the real problem is that we do not account for the value of natural resources and the environment in our economics. Couldn't agree more. We're no
by lukifer 17y ago
> In my mind, the real problem is that we do not account for the value of natural resources and the environment in our economics.
Couldn't agree more. We're not going to get anywhere by turning the issue into a polemic "debate". We should be focusing on central tenets so obvious they're impossible to disagree with: wealth is derived from the underlying ecosystem of nature, and securing the long-term health of that system is in everyone's best interest.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
- vannevar 17y agoWhereas the continued trumped up 'debate' over AGW demonstrates that our society is full of wealthy old men quite willing to sacrifice the distant future for their own profit today. There is no scientific debate here, only the appearance of one. And in the end, that's all those corrupt old men need.