1. Bill Gates' thoughts on climate change & capitalism are worth pondering: http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/bill-gates-says-that-capitalism-cannot-save-us-from-climate-change--b1xNpbL8O_x …
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2. Premise: for the next few hundred years at least, maybe forever, the earth is the only habitable home for the vast majority of humanity.
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3. Premise: maintaining the earth as a habitable planet for humanity (and other species) is worth goal.
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4. Fact: under existing incentive structures, there's no profit to be made in maintaining earth as habitable planet for humans, etc.
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5. If we want to maintain earth as habitable planet we need to change incentive structure via instrument not concerned with profits (gov't)
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6. And since climate is global problem, these non-profit instruments (states) have to work together. That's inescapable.
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7. This is all blindingly obvious of course, but since there's a denial of the obvious, it's good to have Gates spell it out.
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