Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State

Re:Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norweg... by InSteady on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:41PM (#39048920)

>The same logic applies to shutting down oil and gas production: if we are not certain, then why risk the downsides?

You are conflating the cost of not extracting a fraction of a fraction of current production capacity with the risk ending human existence through changing systems we do not have anything close to a full understanding of nor precise control over.

Degrees of risk matter, in fact they are the whole point of GPs logic.

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Re:Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norweg... by brutusborn on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:11PM (#39049267)

I’m not conflating them, I’m trying to elicit someone to _compare_ them so we can discuss reflexively rejecting certain solutions.

If you don’t have some measure of cost / benefits / risks, how can you reject a potential solution outright?

The answer is you can’t, so if you are doing so your reflex is based on emotion rather than reason.

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