I'm not wild about gotcha journalism. But geez I'd love to ask some of the people writing about climate some basic questions. What are total CO2 emissions per year? What percentage is due to the US? To China? To coal? To power generation?
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What's missing in discussions about climate change is the tradeoff we face between mitigating it and economic growth. Here's a little thought experiment highlighting this tradeoff.pic.twitter.com/vBelK85WzJ
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Left and right both, for different reasons, want to insist that the cost will be fantastically great. I am super non-expert, but back-of-envelope seems to say ~~2% of global GDP, which we can easily afford.
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Yes, this is very widespread. It’s potentially catastrophic in insisting that we have to solve every other difficult problem in order to address climate change. Nothing less than total transformation of every aspect of life can do the job. That demands failure.
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Divorcing the moralising aspect from a topic like climate change where your politics are almost always going to inextricably be linked is something that I think would be difficult avoid for almost anyone. Think this raises a good q as to how to create a less sentimental discourse
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