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The reason I don’t really care about climate skeptics is that I don’t need to believe they’re 100% wrong or that I’m 100% right to want to help undertake meaningful climate action. Pascal’s wager thinking applies. Even a 10% chance climate scientists are right is enoughto act on
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The other big reason is that we’re overdue for a major tech upgrade to out energy/material systems anyway. There’s other reasons to want the transition, like 10xing abundance. Using bits to create a lot more bang per joule or gram of earth resources.
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But perhaps the most important reason is that it’s an interesting way to continue the civilization game. We’ve literally played through the Industrial Age level and it is just boring now. A post-transition game level would be new, fun, have lots of new gameplay.
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This is why I dislike “sustainability” frames. That’s just budgeting energy/matter to continue this level of the game indefinitely. It’s like if the only video games available were computerized board games. Sustainability is like computerizing chess. I’d like Tetris invented.
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I completely agree that the technology game is way more fun than the 'careful conservation and budgeting' game. How'd you account for the unpredictability of new tech, though?
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Aha. This last one matches my thoughts. My fear with the Global Warmist position is that we form policies that suck the innovation and fuel (profit) out of the economy and lock ourselves into current technology with a slow decline to misery.