Raymond B. answered • 06/04/22
Math, microeconomics or criminal justice
the more US tightens environmental restirctions, the less profitable for corporations who then move to countries where there are little or no environmental regulations. Net effect is more air pollution worldwide.
China is so bad, they wore masks in public due to the air pollution long before covid19
Mexico City is as bad as smoking 2 packs of unfiltered cigarettes, daily
India is similar. Reign in China, Mexico and India or anything we do is worthless.
We're just outsourcing jobs and pollutiion, making air pollution far worse than before. The Green Energy movement in the US has been financed by Putin, as he knows it will destroy our economy, with Russian oil sale profits increases. Even if done under the table, secretively, to evade sanction. Money drives the system.
An ancient moral maxim is "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."
Economics has been called the Study of Unintended Consequences, i.e. counterproductive unseen consequences, unseen at least at first or 2nd or 3rd unskeptical glances.
Similar probelm arises with the FDA and drug regulation. Chicago economist Sam Peltzman, nominated for the Nobel Prize, proved more stringent regulations caused more deaths, as even fatally terminally ill patients are not allowed to use experimental drugs, which are not FDA approved. We kill more people in the same of "science," than untested experimental "unscientific" "wives' tales" remedies cause. However well meaning, however well intended and virtuous the Green movement in the US, it's causing even more global warming and pollution and deaths.
Economists call it the "Peltzman Effect" when over regulation makes things worse than before regulation.
But there are so many Green advocates out there, including in our current President's administration. I'm sure you'll find an answer from others who would satisfy your blind Green professor. But he and they, however well meaning, are simply very wrong. Dead wrong, in more ways than one, sadly.
Write a letter to President Biden, he or his advisors may respond and send you their defense of strict environmental regulations. Good source to cite. Plus a letter to save and cherish. Or there's Nobel laureate Al Gore with his "Unpleasant Truth," very citable. Very authoritative. But all very Deadly Wrong. The hockey stick prediction came false. The models used by Greens have never predicted anything that was confirmed. Generally they predict things that cannot be falsified in our lifetime, making them immune from falsification or real scientific testing It's also a model that uses a zero interest rate to calculate costs. What that means is that any cost in a thousand quadrillion years from now, (when we're all very dead and the human race extinct, the sun dead of light. Lights out.) will count in the cost benefit analysis as much as a cost incurred today. That's insane. Insanely mathematicall & financially insane, but as Mark Twain said "There's Lies, Damned Lies and then there's Statistics" Greens are good at Twains' last category as well as duped beyond all dupes. Once you're convinced you're on a Noble cause, suddenly even dishonesty becomes ok, even required to advance the virtuous cause above all.
Finland's Greens at least came out in favor of less carbon free nuclear energy. Most Greens won't do that. Most are not paying attention to even traditional "science." But then the Finns had to realize reality as Russia cut off it's energy. Unclear what it will take to bring other Greens to reality. For many, Green Energy is a Religion, a Cult, which they can never doubt. As doubt is a heresy. even worse than an infidel
Any way you slice it, the earth is doomed one way or another, from counterproductive insane well meaning policies or from other more traditional causes. So, the solution is as never to receive a Nobel Stephen Hawking said, move to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Similar to Elon. Space travel is the future. the Earth the past. for the living. Trying to revive a dying person, a dying planet, is a waste of resources, if they or it are fatally wounded. Accept the inevitable. It's inevitable. But we at least had a few generations left, until the Greens tried to cut it shorter.
