Thought I was being unfair to Gary Johnson the other day but he's doubling down on "the abyss of time justifies all"https://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/we-have-to-inhabit-other-planets-gary-johnson-offers-libertarian-solution-to-climate-change/ …
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LITERALLY NOT KIDDING GARY JOHNSON: "Africa and South America were, at one time, the same continent. Therefore no carbon tax"
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GARY JOHNSON'S CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTION: WARP DRIVE
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See this is why the atrociously bad politics of movies like Interstellar matter, because people really think like this
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"If Earth gets too warm why don't we move to Mars?" "Bc Mars is even more deadly than a ruined Earth would be?" "Ok what about WARP DRIVE"
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"We have existed for billions of years so why worry?" Humans are at most 200K yrs old so I guess GJ identifies with stars and planets
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"Why does climate change matter if we can go to other planets?" "Why should I change the oil in my car when I could just build a new car"
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"How about when we use up Earth we go to Mars?" "How about when my company goes bankrupt I just start a new company?" (Ok Trump did that)
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Earthlike planets are the most valuable resource we know of in the universe and we've only got one. You can't just ask for another
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It's like saying it doesn't matter if we turn all our farmland into a dust bowl because we can just make new farmland in the Sahara desert
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JFC you're ducking this question bc charging people on Earth a gasoline tax is too hard and you expect ppl to move into tiny domed Mars habs
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I think colonizing other planets would be great and it will only ever happen if we manage to not squander all the resources on this one
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The idea of a ravaged starving Earth pulling off space colonization is absurd. Even in Interstellar it only works bc of the Wormhole Aliens
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