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Comment Re: Collective action problem/low probability even (Score 1) 70

You need to look at risk AND consequence of an event happening to determine if you want to take preventative action. If a power failure is going to cost you 1 trillion dollars and kill 5 people on average. You might invest in dual or triple feed into your substation with proper auto-transfer and emergency services genset even if its only ever happened once before.

Comment Just plant more trees? (Score 1) 288

That's alot cheaper.. The climate is a system that is so non linear that our attempts at modelling are just pathetic jokes. Rather than accept this and make use of existing levers for control, humans thinks inserting a disturbance into the system (somewhere in the eqns, who really knows tho) will fix the problem. We know trees work and integrate nicely into the equation. Use them.

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