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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Nature will force people to cut back.
It could. I don't think it would though. Markets are a pseudo-natural phenomenon, and they have the nature to solve these sorts of problems.
And human nature has us on a course of over-leveraging ourselves as far as we can go.
On the issue of AGW, does it? People talk about worst-case scenario problems like mass ice sheet melt as if they're unable to be mitigated and as if measures to stop them provide only net benefit. But really what we're looking at is the cost of turning the world into the Netherlands or the far greater cost of dropping economic activity enough that ice sheets won't melt.
Eventually, we're gonna see global carbon use on the decline because of technology. Maybe in 2100 there will be significantly less Antarctic ice and there will be some other great distortions like in seafood, but I'm sure people won't give a shit since they'll be rigged to virtual reality for virtually everything and carbon emissions will be dropping enough that some other disaster like toxic breathable levels of CO2 in the air will not be reached (if there's even enough carbon to burn to get to that ridiculously high PPM in the first place).
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