2017-09-07 13:49:49-0400
The Climate is telling us something.
Politics is a process for the distribution of resources. That distribution is influenced by the common need to externalize risk: provide for the enforcement and definition of property, insure equitable access to resources determined to be common, helping insure stability and predictability in the short and long terms.
Implicit in all these decisions and lawmaking is that there is a world that doesn't burn up, or get washed or blown away, or covered in massive rainfalls or snowfalls, or the cascade of after effects resulting from these catastrophes. This baseline of predictability - the climate of decision, as it were - is eroding. You can't have a rule of law in a world without access to safe food, air, and water. You can't allocate and defend resources that aren't there.
That's why I say we have to reassign priorities in a radical (in its original sense of "down at the roots") way to work, more or less, only on this environmental problem.
Politics is a process for the distribution of resources. That distribution is influenced by the common need to externalize risk: provide for the enforcement and definition of property, insure equitable access to resources determined to be common, helping insure stability and predictability in the short and long terms.
Implicit in all these decisions and lawmaking is that there is a world that doesn't burn up, or get washed or blown away, or covered in massive rainfalls or snowfalls, or the cascade of after effects resulting from these catastrophes. This baseline of predictability - the climate of decision, as it were - is eroding. You can't have a rule of law in a world without access to safe food, air, and water. You can't allocate and defend resources that aren't there.
That's why I say we have to reassign priorities in a radical (in its original sense of "down at the roots") way to work, more or less, only on this environmental problem.
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