Thanks for pointing this out. I agree it is good to have this debate explicitly.
Regarding point one, it doesn’t seem all that extreme to me, but maybe I’m wrong. Republican administrations have rolled back regulations on climate and Democratic administrations have expanded them, and it doesn’t seem like there’s all that much variation in this.
The second one is a good point, though it’s tough to figure out the right approach to do this quantification, since it is the global cost of carbon, so it’s not only American lives involved in the quantification (http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/23.full.pdf). In addition, at the risk of getting into another thorny debate, it leaves out the costs for wild animals, which I would guess would be at least an order of magnitude worse than those for humans. I’m going to make another post to address this. On balance, this seems to me to move participation in this march from ‘toss up’ to ineffective, but I don’t think that generalizes to causes that are potentially easier to impact or smaller marches.
Thanks for pointing this out. I agree it is good to have this debate explicitly.
Regarding point one, it doesn’t seem all that extreme to me, but maybe I’m wrong. Republican administrations have rolled back regulations on climate and Democratic administrations have expanded them, and it doesn’t seem like there’s all that much variation in this.
The second one is a good point, though it’s tough to figure out the right approach to do this quantification, since it is the global cost of carbon, so it’s not only American lives involved in the quantification (http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/23.full.pdf). In addition, at the risk of getting into another thorny debate, it leaves out the costs for wild animals, which I would guess would be at least an order of magnitude worse than those for humans. I’m going to make another post to address this. On balance, this seems to me to move participation in this march from ‘toss up’ to ineffective, but I don’t think that generalizes to causes that are potentially easier to impact or smaller marches.