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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by kzrdude on Saturday April 30, 2022 @07:22AM (#31215138)
"Free market" economics are broken for nonrenewable resources, since they misprice them - don't take future scarcity into account at all, and encourage an all-you-can-extract economy.
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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday April 30, 2022 @07:44AM (#31215266)
They're relatively easy to fix though.

But fossil fuels oligarchies destroy society and civilization just as much as they destroy the environment.

Faith in government, science, rule of law, democracy and economics have been polluted as thoroughly as the air.

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