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andyjohnson0yesterday at 8:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> 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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Zopieuxyesterday at 9:34 PM

White executives in their late 60s cannot care less, they'll be dead by then