Surur t1_j139f4h wrote on December 21, 2022 at 10:11 AM

Reply to comment by ILikeNeurons in Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated by strangeattractors

So since we are not going to change policy having no children is the most impactful thing an environmentalist can do, right?

One environmentalist not having 2 children is the same as 60 people not driving? If environmentalists made up 5% of the population and none of them had any children it would be the same impact as if everyone stopped driving.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

ILikeNeurons t1_j13ekyj wrote on December 21, 2022 at 11:21 AM

A growing proportion of global emissions are covered by a carbon price, including at rates that actually matter.

It helps to understand how dead weight loss works with externalities.