What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

Indeed, that's why environmental issues scare me more than resource shortages - there is no automatic economic mechanism for solving those problems.

-Jester

I have been thinking about this comment. This concern was highlighted in an interesting TEDtalk - Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!

Worrisome issues indeed.

Well, there maybe natural corrective consequences, but they involve unacceptable levels of mass extinction and thousands of years before nature re-balances the equilibrium. On the positive side, nature has dealt with higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere before. Perhaps, the flora and fauna that thrive in higher CO2 atmospheres will result in higher levels of carbon sequestration. Toxins, and radioactivity just take time to diminish and dilute away. Living with toxic zones (e.g. heavy metals pollution down wind from coal plants) is troubling.

I'm very much in sync with his ideas, although it would need to be phased in slowly to prevent cost shock to economies.