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You can just as easily argue that markets caused all this. They don't incentivize the preservation of the planet or even life at all. There is no reason to beli
by kraf 23d ago
You can just as easily argue that markets caused all this. They don't incentivize the preservation of the planet or even life at all. There is no reason to believe that anything that comes out of markets organically is good, they don't converge towards worlds that have sound values. If they do in some instance then it's just by happenstance as in the solar example.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertarian-faq/#externalities https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...
Also this seems to contradict your fossil fuel paragraph completely, the US is amongst the world's highest fossil fuel consumers per person: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels?fuel=total&metric=consumption&per_capita=per_capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels?fuel=total&m...