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If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
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RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
I’d say that the above is an argument against batshit non reasons- but what I’m talking about lies more in some portion of the people we’ve decided to say “well fuck them” about. Environmental repair isn’t a free ride. The problem really has nothing to do with people wanting burgers. We can have all the corn syrup and beef patties we want in a warmer world, or a repaired world.

For example if non batshit objections to respond to the reality of climate change and a shrinking desire for tobacco products, this region is trying to get producers to try alternative crops and methods. That’s all well and good, but if we were 100% effective in our aim here, from your perspective and from a distance that’s a rational good.

It is not a rational good for all the people And industries and economies that depend on that tobacco. We have a variety of plans and tons of financial and operational assistance for how the individual producer can make the transition - but no plan or assistance for those people. In s certain light, we’re simply imagining a future world without them in it. Fuck them….and who in their right and logical mind is going to do the unfun work of repairing a world that has no place in it for them?

What’s worked for us is to help producers and communities find some personal attachment and desire for environmental change… and then and only then, apply the tool of logic to come up with a process or system to seek that goal. Daying that we should reduce carbon, period, is less than wrong from the overall perspective..and, frankly….it doesn’t wiork.

People want to know how we can improve their lives- not which sword we’re demanding they fall on. No one is interested in saving earth for earths sake….and why would they be.. it’s just a rock.
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RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better? - by The Grand Nudger - July 13, 2021 at 8:56 pm

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