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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 8:06 PM1 replyview on HN

This attitude misses the realities of scale bottlenecks and sunk costs.

If we ignore climate externalities, it makes sense to build solar as fast as we can and also pump oil, preferably for export.


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andyjohnson0yesterday at 8:33 PM

> If we ignore climate externalities, it makes sense to build solar as fast as we can and also pump oil, preferably for export.

I appreciate that "externalities" is a term from economics. But its also worth remembering that there are no externalities when it comes to the global climate and atmospheric system. There is precisely one planetary atmosphere and we all share it. When we degrade its ability to support life then that ultimately affects all life.

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