“I’m glad climate is not a crisis…”

It's always so illuminating when economists talk about climate collapse, in much the way it's really useful to get a hairdresser's opinion on how to choose the best possible choice of chemotherapy so as to minimize hair loss in the patient.

The argument here is that the climate crisis is bigger than a few endangered species. The other side of it, though, is that if you're destroying important chunks of the environment, how much of it are you really saving? There are other ways to do green power generation than this one hydro project. Maybe it's really not worth smashing though all these endangered species' habitats.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So many of todays’ issues like the housing crisis are directly caused by prevailing NIMBY attitudes e.g multi-family housing zoning laws. Unfortunately, the cruel irony is people who want real change often through their own cognitive dissonance vote or act against their best interests when the “M” in NIMBY turns out to be themselves.

Beware, the writing is tough (disjointed) to follow.

From the beginning,

> The US, and New York State in particular, are embarked on a decarbonization agenda. Canada has a lot of hydropower to spare, which emits on CO2. (Though large hydropower is rather hilariously not deemed "renewable" by California, among others.) All we need is a big extension cord from Canada down to NYC, and we can save the climate, right?

This reads like the disjointed stream of consciousness of a drunk person watching the evening news.