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by jessaustin
2968 days ago
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I'm not seeing that anywhere in the comments on this article. Can you link to it? This [0] seems pretty close to that description. There are good reasons to be extremely alarmed for our future generations. That's not a hysterical position. Very few people "believe" strongly enough to invest based on that belief. Why hasn't Bezos or Soros or whoever started buying lots of land in northern Saskatchewan, or shorting land on the coasts? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17008013 |
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> Why hasn't Bezos or Soros or whoever started buying lots of land in northern Saskatchewan, or shorting land on the coasts?
Because (a) it's complicated (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-02/the-u-s-c...) and (b) investors are famously short-term thinkers and as is evident in some of the discussion here, the effects of global warming are just slow and opaque enough to fool a lot of people into thinking they don't exist.
...and this is granting that investor interest is a good way to evaluate how sound the science is on some subject, and I don't think that's a position I'd agree with.