Won’t somebody please think of the productivity?
You’re joking, but unfortunately this is the only logic some people respond to.
For some yes, but others will only start behaving responsibly when it impacts their bottom line. Until then it will mean nothing to them. They will hear it, and read about it, but they’ll ignore it.
I do, that’s why I work public sector. I work well because it’s going to make someone else’s life easier
I like not paying high prices for food though.
Oh no not the productivity
Won’t someone think of the growth!?
Fuck growth, that’s what got us into this mess.
people are suffering, but it’s more important that the line is not increasing, peasants!
Wait wait wait, you’re telling me all the money that was gained not fixing problems was short-sighted? You’re telling me there’s downsides?
Why haven’t people been talking about this for 20 years!!!
Didn’t some economist joker get a Nobel prize for saying the climate disaster wouldn’t cause much economic harm?
He did. By assuming that damage was proportional to the fraction of the economy that a given sector represents. Which is an ok representation at very small amounts of warming. But when temperatures rise, the fact that the agriculture sector was, say, 3% of the economy, doesn’t mean that damage is only 3% when the amount of food goes to zero.
I guess because the economy is made up, whereas the climate disaster is not.
