I don’t disagree, I asked my rhetorical question because this “forest management” argument is often being made in bad faith by right wing climate deniers who also scoff at government spending.
We can extrapolate your logic to climate action at large. Stop meat and dairy related subsidies, stop fossil infrastructure, invest in alternative and sustainable systems even if there’s an apparent short term cost.
It’ll be cheaper than what’s coming…
It’s an ROI thing, as people are pointing out. You’re hand waving that part away. A small business has to weigh an small annual fee and loss of control against buying expensive hardware and paying the salary of one or more IT professionals to maintain their in house systems. This also scales with the size of the company and their data, it’s expensive for a small company to buy one or two servers and storage solutions, it’s expensive for a big company to buy 20 of the same.
You also lose out on off-site backups (without more investment of course) and global availability. Will every company that has a global team roll out servers in every global region? Small companies can have global teams as well.
It’s simply not cost effective for everyone to have their own infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure is the same as any other infrastructure, it is cheaper to pool resources and share
You’re treating data as a special unicorn. Why don’t companies manufacture their own computers? Why don’t they build their own delivery vans?
I bet you fully support the government spending to do so?
If it’s not about “climate change” and it’s about poor management then I guess we got worse at managing it proportional to the accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere. What a coincidence.
You’re talking about a possible mitigation strategy as if the lack of extra mitigation is the root cause. Token acknowledgments of “climate change” and “yeah it’s a bit warmer” are thin veils on your denialism
ok what do you think that costs? you’ve clearly given this a lot of thought to have such a strong opinion.
The right doesn’t have a monopoly on hate, the difference is you’re always punching down
ah yes lack of self awareness too
yes we get it you’re a conservative, you don’t have to prove it by continuing to try to twist facts to match your predetermined worldview
Empathy can absolutely develop over time. This rhetoric is not useful. Even dumb fucking right wing pieces of shit feel empathy when their in-group is affected.
If hate can be learned so can empathy, what you’re suggesting is dehumanizing
I’m with you that the economic system is the root cause of the problem and I’m fighting that battle too in my own way. I have too much to lose to really fight it, but there’s a lot more direct action and community involvement I could be doing. Ideologically, though, I’m anti-capitalist and believe that the way forward is collectivism in the form of anarcho-communism.
That’s a lot harder to achieve than going vegan, though.
fair enough, no shortage of problems from the wealthy and capitalism at large.
one battle at a time
Maybe they should advocate for better fuel regulations and densification ;)
On the other hand React Native is a JavaScript based development language developed by Facebook to make applications run slower and worse.
ok be the worst version of yourself
Behavioral economics isn’t how we allocate our resources, it’s a correction of classical economics to include the human factor. The assumption that everyone is a perfectly rational profit optimizer only reflects reality insofar as we’ve codified that behavior into our laws and regulations such that shareholders can sue companies for not acting in that assumed way.
The kind of economics people take as science don’t describe human populations throughout history.
I am not the one making excuses about individual climate action. I take individual climate action. I’m vegan, I am electrifying my house, I have consistently reduced my consumption. I aim for a lifestyle that would scale up to the whole world.
If you think we need to eliminate the wealthy or nothing is worth doing, then do the thing you think is worth doing. I’m doing plenty, I’m not the one making excuses.
The question isn’t whether others are doing more harm than you, the question is whether your lifestyle would scale up such that if everyone lived like you, would we be sustainable?
Yours is the small scale version of the Canadian and American excuse that China emits more in absolute numbers despite being much better than us per capita.
Stop making excuses, take personal action.
Shame is a good motivator for people that have it
oh right we all forgot China bad