Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by ComputerGuru on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:19AM
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Respectfully but very firmly disagree. It’s the role of nation-state actors to protect against exactly things like this (tragedy of the commons) where everyone is individually incentivized to act against the common good.
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Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by danarmak on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:40AM
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Every nation is also individually incentivized to act against the common good of all nations.
Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by thethirdone on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:46AM
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The difference is that nations can meaningfully negotiate with each other.
Individuals don't really have a way of widespread negotiation other than elected representatives.
Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by adrianN on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:47AM
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Being a leader in technology that the whole world has to deploy in the next twenty years can be an advantage.
Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by ComputerGuru on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:06AM
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Which is ostensibly why things like the (laughably impotent) UN exist.
Re:Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:46AM
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Yes and no. Nation states resolve coordination problems of their citizens. But while being (somewhat) coordinated within, they're still in regular competition with each other. To get nation states to not themselves fall into geopolitical tragedies of the commons, you'd need a global government above all nations.