re: #154 Obdicut

You’re almost right. The problem is a cultural one more than a legal one, but legal can help enforce cultural. We need to get away from our culture of greed, but it’s unlikely to happen until AGW starts to really destroy our economy and society. There are too many greed-heads, glibertarians, idiots supporting completely fantasies like the Ryan plan, etc. to actually shift our culture away from the money-obsessed one we have now.

Actually, I think you could move things a good bit. But you’d need to pretend you were serving some other short term objective at the same time, and you’d need to convince people you’d solved it as well (you wouldn’t actually have to solve the short term issue, just get people to think you had).