• spauldo
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    1 year ago

    Economic reasons are the best reasons. They’re the reasons that work.

    I don’t think it matters why we move away from oil, as long as we do.

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      1 year ago

      They are the path of least resistant yes. But that path often leads to collective losses, or if the stakes are high, like in climate change, to collective destruction. We get stuck in the Nash equilibrium of a prisoners dilemma.

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        That’s true. Without economic pressure it’s a lot harder to get governments to cooperate, though. If economics favor you it’s easier to get the right laws passed.