How would one even begin to adjudicate that? How do you determine which storm or what portion of a storm was caused by climate change, and how do you determine what portion of climate change was caused by Exxon’s CO2 emissions or whatever?

(Yes I read the article)

Yes, and it’s worth pointing out the class of people buying ikeas rugs were NOT buying Persian wool/silk rugs before…they had bare floors or make coverings out of cloth or woven grass.

Also worth pointing out that since 1979, regardless of whether it is secondhand or not and which country you are procuring it from, rugs made in Iran (Persian rugs) have been totally banned for import to the U.S. Tribal rugs now come more from places like Turkey and India. So the market is being extremely artificially suppressed, boosting ikea rugs even more.

The notion we only see this news when it is calling out a country with which the federal government is in conflict makes me question to veracity and intent of the article itself, more than the content of it.

You lost me in the next paragraph where your solution was to centralize even more into a committee that has the power to bulldoze over more locally relevant needs and desires

Son: 64

Son’s transplant of mothers kidney: 48

Typical kidney transplant lifespan: 15-20

There are 40,000 McDonald’s franchisees who basically just put money into a coinop machine and the machine returns with exactly the food, drinks, restaurant decor, prices, etc that it wants them to sell.

Toyota’s production system coordinates what gets made and when, detects abnormalities and directs human attention toward problems and improvement. They explicitly eliminate the need for people to continuously watch machines, while preserving human judgment