Another aspect of our psychology's 'moral hazard' might play out like
this:
After rosy claims of such solutions being shown not very practical or
with limited effect but insurmountable obstacles, one after another,
years pass by. The public as well as people who have worked on them
become totally
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se issues better than I
have.
Rob
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trying to force climate policy into this mold
> seems to me to invite misunderstanding of the issues at hand.
>
> Lee
>
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Lee,
It would help in this discussion to provide a clear definition of "moral
hazard" and then say why or why not that definition is relevant in this context.
If you
Lee,
It would help in this discussion to provide a clear definition of "moral
hazard" and then say why or why not that definition is relevant in this
context.
If you look on the web, you can get quite a range of definitions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+moral+hazard
The first definit
Dear Josh,
I would suggest that in the future we would all be better off without the term
"moral hazard". Moral hazard, as I suspect you know, is a kind of market
failure. The concept is perfectly useful for describing a class of problems
that arise in insurance markets and other kinds of ri
Dear Josh,
Because GE can at best only delay global warming, I suggested at
Asilomar that a condition for the implementation of GE be that
satisfactory mitigation steps must have already been achieved.
Sincerely,
Oliver Wingenter
On 9/17/2010 3:56 PM, Josh Horton wrote:
One of the more in
One of the more interesting findings pertains to the "moral hazard"
argument against geoengineering, that is, people will embrace
geoengineering as an excuse to avoid emissions reductions, and current
levels of fossil fuel consumption will persist if not increase. Moral
hazard has emerged as one of
