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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by s1artibartfast on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:50AM (#38237959)
That's silly. That's like condemning logic or mathematics.

If you want future viability, you can ask if there is a cheap way or an expensive way to get what you want. That's economics. It says nothing about what your goal is.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by dottjt on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:55AM (#38237980)
You're forgetting a key factor though: politics.

What you're arguing is a rational idea of economics that doesn't exist. Instead, we have this bastard version influenced by politics, which in practice, cares nothing of the key objectives which concern future viability.

Instead, we get this thing that demands infinite growth and consumption. That's modern economics and it's destroying us.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:46AM (#38241150)
> we get this thing that demands infinite growth and consumption. That's modern economics

This is a stylised misinterpretation of economics.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by s1artibartfast on Sunday November 12, 2023 @11:28AM (#38241591)
so you are just saying that you dont like a particular brand of politics.
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