[serious] Charity thread

[Drake Tungsten]

Malaria kills more people in the third-world that DDT ever would have.

[KrazyHorse]

But it is filosofy according to KH.

No, you ****wit. I said that the inability to quantify it is filosofy. Measurement uncertainty is always part of the game.

As always, you manage to astound me with your stupidity

[KrazyHorse]

If the total is objective, then the numbers are indisputable.


Total yardage for Tim Tebow last year = objective fact.

Total impact of 1 ton of carbon emission = largely arbitrary number.

Are you honestly this stupid?

[KrazyHorse]

By the way, even in the presence of uncertainty as to the optimal pricing of factor externalities, putting in our best guess is obviously superior to attempting to decide individually what our preferences mean at the end of the production chain. The aggregation problem is separate from the basic measurement issue.

This is so blindingly obvious that you should be embarrassed I had to point it out to you.

[KrazyHorse]

By the way, even in the presence of uncertainty as to the optimal pricing of factor externalities, putting in our best guess is obviously superior to attempting to decide individually what our preferences mean at the end of the production chain. The aggregation problem is separate from the basic measurement issue.

This is so blindingly obvious that you should be embarrassed I had to point it out to you.

[Kuciwalker]

You don't understand, when there is a lot of measurement uncertainty the underlying value becomes subjective.

[KrazyHorse]

That's the case with the majority of environmental impacts.


It's nice to think we've got it all figured out and know exactly what does what but the unforunate truth is we don't. That's the first step... realizing how much we don't know. Environmental science (or "Impact Science") is a relatively new discipline. Only in the last couple decades have universities begun to offer multidisciplinary graduate degrees, so that we can begin to quantify environmental impacts including the economic, social and ecologic factors.

That's why I'm gonna teach public highschool. To give back and to talk-up this new discipline, in hopes of science garnering the next Sylvia Earle or Rachel Carson.






BA Environmental Studies
MSc International Environmental Science
PhD (candidate) Interdisciplinary Ecology (agriculture specializing in gender)

Let's be honest and realistic about our knowledge.

Your degrees are jokes. Agriculture specializing in gender?

2 sigma wannabe intellectual. Have fun babysitting next generation's mediocracy.

[Heraclitus]

"agriculture specializing in gender"?

Care to explain second wave feminism to my eggplant?



PS Please please google up The Spearhead and start trolling there. I'll just sit back and watch.

[DaShi]

Your degrees are jokes. Agriculture specializing in gender?

2 sigma wannabe intellectual. Have fun babysitting next generation's mediocracy.

To be fair, environmental policy is all the rage now. But it's still the engineers who are reaping most of the benefits.

[Jon Miller]

I am sure it has something to do with plowing fields.

JM

[giblets]

I am sure it has something to do with plowing fields.

JM

Not bad.

[DanS]

2 sigma wannabe intellectual.

You're being charitable.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm taking his IQ claim at face value.

[Hauldren Collider]

Please don't teach English, Math, or Science, since we've established you can't actually handle any of them.

Also, Rachel Carson is responsible for millions of deaths. She has had a profoundly evil impact on the world.

My middle school was named after Rachel Carson

The administration stopped just short of asking us to god worship her

I came *this* close to getting sent to the principal for commenting on how pesticides had dramatically increased the number of specialists in the economy. My science teacher (who grew up in afghanistan) told me that if I were in Afghanistan, I would have had "ten sticks broken over my back by now." I snarkily (and, IMO, correctly) replied that it was "reason number 436 not to live in Afghanistan."

[giblets]

Rule #784 in not being a little twit: don't denigrate someone's home country.