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Re: Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?

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Why is humanity still pumping unsustainable levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when all the science points to that being a road that leads to catastrophic consequences which we can't predict?

First, this is a classic example of tragedy of commons - if you lower emissions, then you bear all the costs but a tiny fraction of the benefit; Second, even if coordination can be solved, by and large the groups/areas that can make a meaningful reduction are not the groups/areas that will bear most of the consequences, there's no such thing as a single, aligned direction of interest/benefit for humanity.

I think we can all agree that another mass extinction event and chaotic weather pattern upheavals are both bad things.

Re: Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sources please. The clear consensus is that AGW is real. That is a far cry from saying that there is a clear consensus that it must be dealt with ever, let alone that it must be dealt with in the near-term.

As a start: The U.S. military and the U.S. intelligence community; and I'm almost certain: The IPCC and the insurance industry. I encourage you to read the IPCC summary report; it will clear up a lot of mysteries.

Links?

Re: Why Are Developers Still Pouring Billions into Waterlogged Miami?

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post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a start: The U.S. military and the U.S. intelligence community; and I'm almost certain: The IPCC and the insurance industry. I encourage you to read the IPCC summary report; it will clear up a lot of mysteries.

Links?

Google will show you.
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