Overall, my philosophy when it comes to the "commons" is that if you, or your horse makes mess it's your responsibility to clean it up.
The trouble with the cartoon is it doesn't consider the costs. For example, we can drastically reduce hurricane deaths by moving people and communities 200 miles from the coast. Pretty much impossible in costs and not politically feasible. We have made progress on reducing co2 with a thriving economy due to technology. I'm a big advocate of sensible transition to clean energy, but not by neo-Luddite destruction of the economy.
The trouble with the cartoon is it doesn't consider the costs. For example, we can drastically reduce hurricane deaths by moving people and communities 200 miles from the coast. Pretty much impossible in costs and not politically feasible. We have made progress on reducing co2 with a thriving economy due to technology. I'm a big advocate of sensible transition to clean energy, but not by neo-Luddite destruction of the economy.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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