Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating

Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating by miscPerson on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:43AM (#22557350)

Authoritarian/collectivist governments have killed around 100M people in the past century; a number comparable to the predictions of climate crises over the next century.

There’s a reason people insist on societies based around individual liberty and citizen empowerment — they work! They’re what has led to the greatest increase in human well-being the world has ever seen.

Suggesting authoritarianism in response to climate change is simply creating a second problem — and one that’s unlikely to solve the first.

So yes, people resist you trying a repeatedly failed idea again, just so you can be seen to be doing something.

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Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating by ianleeclark on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:49AM (#22557416)

I don't know why people see the only way to collective struggle being through an authoritarian battering ram. I think this says far more about you than you realize: the only way in which you could possibly imagine yourself working with another person is at the barrel of a gun.

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Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating by trentnix on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:07AM (#22557616)

And your plans for those who won't work with you (for whatever reason) to address the collective struggle are...?

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Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating by ianleeclark on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:18AM (#22557740)

I'm in favor of any solution that even so much as attempts to price-in externalities into the market. Examples are carbon taxes and tariffs.

Now what's your solution that doesn't tread on my individual liberty?

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