[andsoitis]

”Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.”

How do we change incentives to be long-term aligned rather than counter-productive, anxious short-termism?

[mlrtime]

>How do we change incentives to be long-term aligned rather than counter-productive, anxious short-termism?

Easy? You develop technology that makes it win-win for everyone. If you give me a choice to improve my QoL or reduce my cost AND reduce my carbon footprint at the same time, I make that choice.

If I have a choice between reducing carbon footprint, but my QoL goes down or costs go up, I won't choose it.

[ACCount37]

I'm afraid that humanity doesn't have sufficiently advanced incentive-engineering technology for that.

Solving climate change is really really hard. Solving mass media being biased towards alarmism and allergic to nuance, decision-makers in politics and at corporations favoring short-term thinking? Hard enough to make solving climate change look easy.