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Is Landsburg for real?
As with any of Professor Landsburg’s arguments, the logic is impeccable, he’s a clever chap. But as with any logical derivation, it is the initial assumptions from which the conclusions are drawn about which we should be wary. In the case of this article, the implicit assumption revolves around just exactly who counts in future generations. The ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by moresexplease on September 15, 2008
Re: al "Global Warming" Gore
oh, the bad weather?? ask your Father... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007
"Assume a rectangular planet"
''First, I'll make the extreme assumption that our environmental recklessness threatens to shave 1 percentage point off economic growth forever. '' See, that's why economists don't get respect. It's like an old Jack Benny routine: ''Your money or your life!'' ''I'm thinking, I'm thinking...'' Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for somebody to ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by gzuckier on October 24, 2007
An "inconvenient idiot"
Very very long but..... worth the read.... -when you have time of course- ''you are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; you know not whither you are going.'' ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 23, 2007
al "Global Warming" Gore
Very very long but..... worth the read.... -when you have time of course- ''you are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; you know not whither you are going.'' ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 23, 2007
It doesn't even matter who's right...
As long as cooler heads prevail in the debate about what to do, that is. Huge reductions of carbon emissions right now won't stop the severe effects that many are already blaming on warming. Alternative energy research, on the other hand, will eventually allow us to drastically decrease our emissions. And even if all the currently PC thinking ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by NOVERKILL on October 23, 2007
Duck! The asteroids are coming!
No one doubts, when it comes to theory, that assumptions count. Among the assumptions we make about our futures are 1) we personally will live some undetermined period of time and 2) the End Times are not likely to occur now, since every prediction in the past has been wrong. To base our science on numerical assumptions is bizarre at best. In ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by thylawyer on October 23, 2007
Re: Original Sin
Hooray! Someone is telling it as the environmental problem really is, that humans will consume and produce waste no matter what. Of course the more humans, the more consumption and waste. Not just Americans need to control population growth but every country and immigrant on the planet. We can ill afford the environmental and economical impact.
Posted to Green Room by mtnsshore on September 14, 2007