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by jquery 2596 days ago
You nailed it, many of us are "1" or "1"-adjacent.

Consider this... if you don't think The West should be fighting a massive trade-war against India/China around climate change, if your solution to a GLOBAL problem is a NATIONAL solution, then you're just spinning wheels. Trump's tariffs are ironically the greenest policy choice he could possibly be making and he's not exactly getting praise for it.

EDIT: Thus, I think the most likely "solution" to climate change is for humans to adapt or die. The most likely scenario in which we adapt best is the one in which our economies and technology grow the fastest, such that massive-scale geo-engineering becomes possible, so I support those economic growth policies instead, because they don't suffer from prisoner's dilemma defection. This happens to look exactly like climate change denial to leftists.

EDIT EDIT: I don’t care about karma but my post will be “dead” soon, along with many other people who dared to share the same position (and the chilling effect on people who choose not to even speak up). So I ask how I can communicate my position more constructively? Maybe my opinion is just wrong, but I’d like to be convinced by someone who is willing to dialogue with a potential ally.