Website review: The Greenback Effect
TapwaterJ discovered this in Environment
•2 reviews since Apr 18, 2008
environment, market-forces, greed
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TapwaterJ discovered 3 months ago
The Greenback Effect Greed has helped destroy the planet--maybe now it can help save it. Mother Jones, Bill McKibben- "Since I spend most of my time haplessly battling global warming, I encounter a fair number of climate-change skeptics. They're usually clutching some tattered study about tropospheric temperatures from six years back, or muttering about sunspots, but they're almost never carefully weighing the actual current science. The wellspring of their skepticism lies not in chemistry or in physics but in ideology, and their syllogism goes something like this:
Markets solve all problems;
Markets are not solving global warming;
QED, global warming is not a problem.
This proof has certain logical shortcomings, beginning with the fact that it's illogical. But it is emotionally comforting. For those who wanted to stop thinking about politics and responsibility and morality and science and all that stuff, the advent of Reagan-era market fundamentalism was a godsend, and anything that threatens to disrupt it is an identity-challenging tilt of the psychic pinball machine.
So what I tend to say to these people is, I hear you. Markets are powerful. Let's think about why they've failed here and how to make them work.
And there's a one-word answer: information."
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- AngelaHayden rated 3 months ago
- does it ever stop?
