It's entirely not obvious how to best solve the coronavirus situation either, though.
Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by marcosdumay on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:49PM
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On the short term, I will disagree. And we are all living on the short term now. The only thing that works is isolating people.
On the long term, it's even worse, nobody seems to have any idea what to do. But we are doing the opposite than we are doing with Global Warming, we are heavily funding the kinds of research that may solve the problem. All of those kinds.
Umm it is pretty obvious how you “solve” global warming and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It's not obvious how to do that
Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by mwarkentin on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:21PM
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Apparently with a global pandemic. /s
Not on a global scale but on a national it's very obvious.
Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by marcosdumay on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:26PM
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The only thing that matters is the global result, and the only policies that we know how they work at global scale are the ones that we know that they do not work.
There is an incredible lack of actual social and political scientists discussing those policies, and the few economists that are there seem focused on hitting known bad policies (what is easy to understand, since politicians keep pushing them).
But yes, Global Warming has the bad quality that it is completely not obvious how to solve it. There is an entirely different dynamic at the side that accepts it for settling on a solution... and what is more disturbing, R&D and science are mostly neglected there too, even by the academics so prone on applying science to predict the problem.