Curious: what do you think you, personally (not others!), should do about climate change? How do you feel about your own answer - does it seem satisfactory to you, or unsatisfactory?
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Well, there'd be n tonnes less CO2. I guess you value that at zero? (No criticism intended - this can be hard to convey when you're trying to dig into people's mental models! And thanks for the comments.)
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Not obvious to me why I care about number of CO2 molecules in atmosphere more than I care about exact count of water molecules in a rabbit unless there in some impact on humanity in the delta.
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Like if I tip a housekeeper $20 then someone gets some non-zero number of utility from $20 but if I do equivalent on carbon reduction no instrument available to science can detect the difference. Argument generalizes to all numbers within my personal capacity.
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If you drop a coin in an Olympic pool it's going to be near impossible to detect. Yet, there has been a rise in water. Now, if everyone did it...
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