Yeah, doesn’t seem like a totally crazy position to take, but I don’t really buy it. I bet a lot of people would take a probability of having violence inflicted on them in exchange for $8 billion dollars, and I don’t think this kind of categorical comparison of different kinds of harm checks out. It’s hard to really imagine the scale of $8 billion dollars, but I am confident that Sam’s action have killed, indirectly via a long chain of actions, but nevertheless directly responsibly, at least 20-30 people, which I think is probably more than any ecoterrorism that has been committed (though I am not that confident about the history of ecoterrorism, so maybe there was actually something that got to that order of magnitude?)
IMO I think Ecoterrorism’s deaths were primarily the Unabomber, which was at least 3 deaths and 23 injuries. I may retract my first comment if I don’t have more evidence than this.
The unabomber does feel kind of weird to blame on environmentalism. Or like, I would give environmentalism a lot less blame for the unabomber than I would give us for FTX.
Yeah, doesn’t seem like a totally crazy position to take, but I don’t really buy it. I bet a lot of people would take a probability of having violence inflicted on them in exchange for $8 billion dollars, and I don’t think this kind of categorical comparison of different kinds of harm checks out. It’s hard to really imagine the scale of $8 billion dollars, but I am confident that Sam’s action have killed, indirectly via a long chain of actions, but nevertheless directly responsibly, at least 20-30 people, which I think is probably more than any ecoterrorism that has been committed (though I am not that confident about the history of ecoterrorism, so maybe there was actually something that got to that order of magnitude?)
IMO I think Ecoterrorism’s deaths were primarily the Unabomber, which was at least 3 deaths and 23 injuries. I may retract my first comment if I don’t have more evidence than this.
The unabomber does feel kind of weird to blame on environmentalism. Or like, I would give environmentalism a lot less blame for the unabomber than I would give us for FTX.