• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How has shortsighted thinking worked for us? Guess we shouldn’t worry about climate change cause in the long run we are all dead.

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      1 year ago

      Most likely Keynes wasn’t thinking of existential threats to our civilization when he came up with that quote.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Right. Not like there was a rise of genocidal fascism going on at the time that threatened the entire continent of Europe, Russia, China, North Africa, the Middle East, and a belt from India to the Philippines. Meanwhile there was an aborted coup in the US, and labor riots with terrorist attacks so awful they should be classified as small revolutions. Plus a failure of economic/agricultural policy that left the majority of the US (by land) covered in a dust bowl sending refugees from Oklahoma to the rest.

        Nope, none of this was happening. Let’s keep with the short term thinking.

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      1 year ago

      This doesn’t contradict that. Not worrying about the short term because hey the long term will probably be ok is dangerous. Not worrying about the long term because hey the short term is looking sweet is also dangerous.