humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 25, 5:32 pm, David Schwartz wrote:
> On Mar 25, 10:44 am, TC wrote:

> I agree that you don't need perfect knowledge. But you do need to know
> what effects your actions are going to have and you need some way to
> tell which effects are beneficial and which harmful. We lack either of
> these things.

Humans are not without knowledge about such.
We disagree.

> > I, for one, would prefer the cooler weather of a few years back.

> You say that now, but you may (or may not) still say that in 40 years.

I probably won't be around in 40 years. But I do
expect the warming trend to continue.

> It's entirely possible that by the time any efforts to combat global
> warming have a noticeable effect, the Earth will be cooling off more
> than we would like.

Possible but not very likely.

Tom