Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedCharles C. Mann: belief
31 Jan 2018 Conversations with Tyler Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
“Then you add at the top the difficulty of international coordination. I think that’s the tough problem as opposed to the technical problem.”
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- 31 Jan 2018
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…Right. Imagine if you’re Indonesia, and you’re threatened by rising seas and so forth. Indonesia has about 70 billionaires in it, each one of whom could actually set a course of geoengineering on his own. So you add that; that’s at the bottom. Then you add at the top the difficulty of international coordination. I think that’s the tough problem as opposed to the technical problem. The environment and water. Do you think there are water problems that can’t be solved simply by having higher prices when needed, better-defined property rights when needed, and also some kind of regulation when needed? Or is water something we absolutely can do — we just need the will to do it?…
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