I listened to this podcast once where they talked about how clean air regulations were first created. It happened after one town had so much smog people couldn't see in the street and everyone was dying. But they did pass those regulations in the end.
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The point that Meadow's et al made in Frontiers to Growth was not that people cannot regulate, but that the signal that prompts them to regulate will come several decades too late. By the time our agriculture collapses, the tipping points that led there will be long past.
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Exceptions exist. Freon fluorocarbons we’re regulated globally,and the ozone hole U.V. Problem was reversed. Why the hand on the rudder then?
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The mechanisms of ozone depletion were basically understood in 1974, and in 1976 there was public scientific acknowledgement that we should phase out certain chemicals. The regulation only came into effect in 1989, 4 years after we had more than 50% depletion over the south pole.
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Do you consider the innovations of companies like Tesla to be signs of definite progress and an indication that human innovation is not unable to meet the tasks set before it?
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Modernism is largely over, and it is not clear if Elon and the folks supporting him can revive it. There are certainly things that could be done to increase innovation. But the crucial tipping points were in the last century, there is probably no way we can refreeze the poles.
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That is probably not true. Governments, militaries and oil companies knew exactly what was coming, but were not incentivized to change it.
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At least they managed to avoid a nuclear holocaust, which would have sunk the boat immediately. Maybe the only thing we can do now, is to brace for the storm into which we will be thrown by the stream of industrialization? (and to try not to sink the boat ourselves immediately)
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Since they did not abolish nukes in any way, you can argue that they probably saved the world from a global conventional war, via maintaining the threat of mutually assured destruction.
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