Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.
Let's emulate world class leadership from the greatest country on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists doomsayers.
Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change any time now. I'm sure prompting LLMs the right way will harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way for trees to grow better.
Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.
Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was more profitable than continued existence.
Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.
AKA externalities.
Remind me of the fantastic line:
"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment"
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Let's emulate world class leadership from the greatest country on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists doomsayers.
Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change any time now. I'm sure prompting LLMs the right way will harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way for trees to grow better.
I think Elon is working towards colonizing Mars because once it's all worked out, that's what Earth's environment will be like.
Nope, it's Venus that we're racing towards.
See https://screenrant.com/far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinct...
Happened in Finland too— forests becoming net carbon producers.
https://www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/news/finlands-forests...
Notably, politically the notion of forests as carbon sinks have been a very convenient fig leaf for politicians not wanting to reduce emissions in other parts of society.
And Austria
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...