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Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by guelo on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:50PM (#15085541)
It's a prisoner's dilemma type problem. Unless you can get everybody to agree then the rational thing to do is to use as much carbon as you can to stay ahead of the other guys.
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Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by vacri on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:28AM (#15088051)
It's not a prisoner's dilemma at all. There are plenty of humans trying to change, and several countries. Herein lies the problem with game theory - it reduces human behaviour to absurdly simplistic levels.
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Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:18PM (#15086071)
> the rational thing

Perhaps that indicates that reason itself has some hardcoded fundamental limits.

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Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int... by tajen on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:46PM (#15086281)
The hard limit is just that the ones who survive survive. And the reasonable people die. The reasonable are those who don't consume more resources than their environment provides.
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