Re:Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong
by hinkley on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:44PM
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Wars are literally about destroying things until the other side gives up.
The new money goes into the economy yes, but wherever you replace things instead of adding things, any 'value' of the defunct equipment is pretty negligible, isn't it?
Let's say we decommission a coal plant. On the one side you have the human support materials (furniture, office supplies, etc). On the other side you have the equipment for power grid tie-in. All of these could be redistributed into non-coal related businesses.
Isn't there a lot of stuff in the middle that's scrap? It had more value than that. Both objectively and subjectively (sunk cost fallacy), there's going to be some loss associated with the process.
The new money goes into the economy yes, but wherever you replace things instead of adding things, any 'value' of the defunct equipment is pretty negligible, isn't it?
Let's say we decommission a coal plant. On the one side you have the human support materials (furniture, office supplies, etc). On the other side you have the equipment for power grid tie-in. All of these could be redistributed into non-coal related businesses.
Isn't there a lot of stuff in the middle that's scrap? It had more value than that. Both objectively and subjectively (sunk cost fallacy), there's going to be some loss associated with the process.