tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post197422389258848399..comments2024-03-14T11:09:32.759-05:00Comments on Falkenblog: Ethics Expert on Global Warming...Eric Falkensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-18315632132873794372010-02-01T10:11:51.193-06:002010-02-01T10:11:51.193-06:00I think the key impetus for this rather shrill ala...I think the key impetus for this rather shrill alarmism, is the idea that if the larger society is not run with some explicit direction, it will necessarily spin out of control. It's comforting to think some is guiding the ship, because most people have no intuition, or confidence, in the undirected steering of the marketplace. so, the latest cataclysm is global warming, but it is nukes, the ozone, the homeless, there's always something.Eric Falkensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-88208685944794733122010-01-31T09:06:30.835-06:002010-01-31T09:06:30.835-06:00Like investment positions, do you think that relat...Like investment positions, do you think that relative status is the motivating factor for most environmental positions?<br /><br />For people who care entirely about relative status, is absolutism and overconfidence adaptive?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com