Would love to know of a thoughtful / quantitative source for environmental micro optimizations. Know one?
Popular environmentalism (e.g. banning plastic straws) is like the way inexperienced programmers optimize code at random, without profiling first.
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It's prioritizing for a feeling of doing good, instead of doing good.
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Fake :) it was actually a well researched and well implemented policy that will do good.
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It hurts environmental movement’s credibility making it a net-negative
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Only with a very small subset of people...
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a cheap trick by politicians that want to brand themselves as enviromentally concious
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For some the goal is likely culture change, rather than directly affecting plastic consumption at scale.
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Sales by securing a small commitment before securing a bigger one.
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All government programs must have goals and anti-goals (what's working that shouldn't get broken). "Judge programs by their results, not their intentions" - Milton Friedman
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I think this works for many values of X for "popular X"
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