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Re:Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data by vkou on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:45PM (#25896994)
Yes, it's possible, as long as you are willing to give up democracy. I'm not sure you want to make that trade-off.

Edit: This seems to be negative karma bait, so let me express in clear terms - in a democratic system, all else being equal, a challenger who does play the blame game will prevail over an incumbent, who let a disaster take place on their watch.

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Re:Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data by runarberg on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:34PM (#25897339)
I would argue that we would indeed need more democracy (see sibling comment).

The current situation in many of the world’s leading democracies is that representation is abysmal and the democratic process is gamified in such a way as to encourage this kind of blame-game. I’m pretty sure there exists a way to optimize the democratic process in such a way that this blame-game doesn’t happen.

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