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by jedimastert 33 days ago
> There is no world where humans can coordinate in a way that reduces global emissions

They seem to have cooperated rather effectively on increasing them, so I wouldn't say "no world"?

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We burned fossil fuels because they were the cheapest form of energy. We will stop doing that when it becomes too expensive.

We are moving that direction, but a lot of damage will be done before we get there.

People don’t need to coordinate to ignore externalities