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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by trabant00 on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:06AM (#23897389)
You're describing the exact opposite of a scientific process.

And even if science reached nirvana just now (spoiler: it did not) the exact action to take is nowhere close to being an easy choice. We're in a prisoner's dilemma in which if you stop polluting I can take advantage of that, kill you economically and the climate goes to hell faster because you where out tree hugging and left me to do whatever I want with the planet.

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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by wizzwizz4 on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:34AM (#23897634)
Assuming an ideal free market in a real-world environment. Fortunately, though, we have regulation, which can solve this issue! (In theory. Of course, for this to work, we have to have countries sticking to the agreements they've made with other countries, e.g. the Paris Agreement.)
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Re:Fact-check of viral climate misinformation quietly remove... by AstralStorm on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:14AM (#23898055)
You mean like the Brussels Effect? Make it more expensive to not keep the rules.

Enough political will and all the polluters will bend to it.

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