VoiceOfRa comments on Is Greed Stupid? - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: adamzerner 23 June 2015 08:38PM

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 25 June 2015 05:40:44AM 2 points [-]
  1. Because we're going to run out relatively soon.

This is pretty clearly false, especially when one considers things like Shale gas. Also environmentalists having been panicking about how we're going to run out of oil any day now for the past ~40 years and yet the supply of oil has held more or less steady.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 June 2015 01:12:08AM -1 points [-]

Climate change is already affecting the climate in ways we care about, eg: seasonal weather getting more extreme. We'd like that to stop.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 26 June 2015 05:47:19PM 0 points [-]

That's highly debatable. Heck even the global warming believers who actually know something about the science aren't willing to make that claim.

Comment author: gjm 27 June 2015 09:27:35AM *  0 points [-]

aren't willing to make that claim

Simply untrue; see, e.g., this article. What's the source of your information about this? (You should maybe trust it less.)

[EDITED to add: Hello, downvoter(s)! If it happens that you are downvoting me for something actually wrong with what I wrote, do please let me know what. My current hypothesis is that I'm just paying the disagreeing-with-Eugine/Azathoth/VoiceOfRa tax, though.]