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To: neolib who wrote (96591)	1/24/2005 4:04:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

It simply ties ones actions to some consequences. Feedback loops are very useful. They're useful if the feedback comes in time to alter behavior. Setting up an elaborate "feedback" system that advises my posterity long after I'm dead whether I did good or not can hardly be called that. If Canada became sub-tropical and boomed, while Mexico became a desert, don't you think some funds should flow to compensate? I'd say that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Luck is a big factor in life. No reason for this to be any different that I can see. Arizona used to have an inland sea and tropical foliage. Should we compensate them? If the dust bowl comes back to life, should we assess those who still live there? Take from the Oakies and give to the Zonans? The science of whether it is happening, and whether that is good or bad is independent of the economic costs of trying to stop it. We have first of all the question of whether it will happen or not. Then we have the question of whether what happens is bad or not. If the answer to both is yes, then we have the question of what we do about it. You're right. Folks assume two and jump ahead to three before they've settled one. I don't know any way to stop that in our society. Compensating your grandchildren certainly won't. IMO, the solution to the problem is in step two--whether it's bad or good. I say it's neither bad nor good but simply natural, so que sera sera. In that case, one and three don't really matter.