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This is great; another way for warming enthusiasts to put their money where their mouths are. We should see new wooden cities just as soon as they sell their properties in Manhattan and Miami...

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Most people who have the opportunity to build their own homes build them out of wood. It's not like I as a "warming enthusiast" can start rebuilding parts of Manhattan. Even if you are a property owner in New York City, it's unlikely that you will actually rebuild the buildings on your property.

Anyone who believes the predictions has already sold her property in NYC. Perhaps now she is buying up soon-to-be-farmed tundra? In any case we wouldn't expect much new development to occur at elevations near sea level.

I'm not sure why people are unhappy to hear about this new opportunity to simultaneously profit from their knowledge and improve society's organization through their investment signals.

So if people REALLY believed in global warming they would give up their relatively low impact apartments to take up industrial farming?

I think the main point is that there wouldn't be any new development in ocean-side cities if people believed the sensationalism, not that everyone would take up farming.

Good thing he has you to shrink a bad faith argument to a radically smaller set of claims!

'frockington actually read what I wrote. You imagined something silly like "the world is not warming", which I didn't write. I'm pointing out a real issue here. I'm sure you believe that actions taken by humans will cause earth to warm in disastrous ways. Lots of other people claim to believe that, but as long as their investments say otherwise, we won't really be getting ready for the calamity.

Then there are those who want the government to bail out all the flooded condos in Miami, as if that would reduce this problem...

Hehe, don’t hold your breath!

Declarations of "whataboutism" incoming, I'm sure. "You can't use my investment decisions to impeach my religious beliefs!"

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