"Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery that chargesin five minutes"
On 19/05/2021 16:18, Tim Streater wrote:
If the alternative is climate catastrophe, then I'm prepared to stop
occasionally.
How d'ye know that's the alternative?
Let's do a risk analysis:
Suppose all the scientists concerned about climate catastrophe are
wrong, then you'll be suffering a little inconvenience unnecessarily.
That's not the end of the world.
Suppose all the scientists concerned about climate catastrophe are
right, but we refuse to suffer a little inconvenience. That is the end
of the world.
I don't feel that I need to know for certain that the climate
catastrophe hypothesis is correct. It's just not fair to future
generations to risk it.
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