Stop burning fossil fuels? It's pretty easy actually, if you were god-emperor of the world you could structure it in a way where very few fossil fuels have to be burnt. But nobody is god-emperor of the world, nobody is even god-emperor of most countries or even most large companies, people are barely president of most countries or large companies and that's the problem.

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argentinian 8 hours ago | parent [-]

So we need a benign world emperor. And there's the risk of an evil world emperor.

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inigyou 8 hours ago | parent [-]

We could start by letting companies have emperors, instead of letting the financial market be the emperor of almost every company.

How's Valve Software doing?

	▲	argentinian 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The financial market is an expression of the incentives of investors. I think that markets are not the problem, instead the problem is that pollution is free, companies and governments can pollute or Earth without paying externalities. Blaming markets is completely missing the mark.