You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Izeinwinter comments on Why economics is not a morality tale - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 June 2013 03:20PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (55)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Izeinwinter 05 June 2013 10:54:22AM 3 points [-]

There exists much better work than that on power production externalities. ExternE, for starters. Which mostly prove that the amount of pollution has remarkably little to do with how much power you produce, and a heck of a lot to do with which technologies you use to produce them. Major takeaway if you do not care to read that "Coal is not a good idea, even ignoring the carbon.".