Re:India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius
by gonzo41 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @10:00AM
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Thanks for posting this. It's something that's really hard to communicate about climate change to people. It's also super depressing.
I went down with heat stroke once and I get know what this is like. I was in hospital for 4 days after a close brush with kidney failure. So many people just think it'll be just a bit hotter in the future.
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"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
It's actually a really interesting question, but also very hard to answer in practice. The positive answer would involve the ability of competitive markets[1] to serve as efficient mechanisms that coordinate the activities of people across the globe to collectively increase wealth/output[2]. With greater total surplus, it becomes relatively "cheaper" [on a societal level] to solve problems like saving the village. (Of course, this leaves out the public goods problem of actually provisioning the village-saving in the case that the villagers don't get lifted up directly by economic growth and buy it for themselves.)
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_equilibrium
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfar...