obviously. It was clear as day to me decade and a half ago.

The West is really really really shortsighted. Like seriously shortsighted, arrogant, incapable of learning or making any smart strategic choices. This is in regards to everything, wars, weapons, power generation, allowing Islam to penetrate its borders, now even cheering FOR Islam and against Israel, not taking out putin and all of his little helpers all around the world judiciously, printing money like it's out of style, getting rid of manufacturing and declaring that now its economy is something else, but not manufacturing and production. In fact declaring that its economy is 'consumption based'. Getting off the gold standard. There are many stupid things the 'collective West' engaged in, will it be able to correct course? I don't see it, not yet.

Should companies bw forced by whatever, unions, or anything else, to maintain employment numbers that does not make sense to them? why? compare to this: once you had your haircut and paid for it, should you be forced to pay the barber every day until you need your next haircut?

under 2% less light is all it will take to reduce temperature, absolutely irrelevant for agriculture but may be 100% necessary for the survival of the marine life and of all life on this planet. If marine life gets kicked in the nuts, so to speak, so will we as civilization.

we need aerosole based sun ray reflection and thus cooling to be done immediately, this is way beyond CO2 content in the atmosphere, which we will not get rid of even if we stop producing any and all new CO2 right now. It will take thousands of years for the existing CO2 to be reduced and burried by natural processes. There won't be any natural processes if we don't cool down the planet asap.

How about verification that people in government are not pedophiles? Until governments can be cleaned out of pedophiles can we stop axcepting any and all requirements from them?

when will justice be served upon putin and all of his murderous thugs? he murdered hundreds of thousands and not only in Ukraine. instead the likes of trump roll out the red carpet for him. Does this "justice" thing only work if the murderer is not a dictator?

Says who that a company 'dumps externalities' on us? It pays for disposing of the clothes.

How about your old clothes, you are throwing it away, you are paying for the trash to be collected, are you dumping externalities? You are PAYING for this to be disposed of, so does a company, everything else is authoritarian nonsense.

what else does it mean? First of all just dealing with it is resource intensive and companies already do. Secondly why do you expect people to behave in a certain way just because you introduce some authoritarian law? You SHOULD expect them to solve the problem in a way that makes sense for them. If it made sense to donate the clothes they would have. There are already outlets, where older unsold clothes is shipped to be sold at a lower price. Once nobody buys stuff there, it has to be disposed of, it requires space and handling, it oozes money by just sitting there idly. The companies will invent a mechanism to achieve the same result as happens now, it will be more expensive, that is all. People route around the damage caused by governments every dat.

the hell you say. Are you breathing the air? Eating the food? Drinking the water? Do you need clothes, a house, a car, petrol, entertainment? You are a walking talking externality. Again, people already pay for disposing of stuff, if the price does not cover something, that is a different question, but that is not the point of my comment. Lets say the clothing company does cover the costs of disposal, what business is it of anyone that they make 10,000 tons of clothes and then end up disposing of 700 tons of it because it doesn't sell? Why is the same logic not applied to everything, how about a crop that is not collected and ends up being ploughed back into the field? Why are you throwing trash away? As to donating clothes - a company should be within its RIGHT to destroy products it did not sell or donate, whatever makes more sense for them, they created the stuff.

"fucking idiot", says a moron who cannot read a paragraph. I talked about disposal costs, there are always costs for disposing of stuff, that is not the point of the comment. To tell people they cannot make things and then destroy things (and dispose with costs) is authoritarian nonsense.

So this is private property and it was created with private money, jobs were paid for, taxes were paid, these THINGS belong to the people (company) who created it. None of it is government's business how they want to use it but now government says: these things you own, you cannot destroy it, you must keep it? For how long do these things need to be stored and where, who is going to be paying to store it?

It is the same thing is the government came to your house and said: you cannot throw away this garbage, though you paid for it, you paid the taxes, you don't need it. Now you must keep it in your house even though you paid the waste disposal fees.

This entire thing is as insane as anything any government does on any given day.

I imagine a company can run a 'sale' of these unsold items for a price of 1 cent per ton of goods sold, 'sell' it to a company that will then dispose of it. Freaking nuts, but it is not even the inconvenience of this that is bothersome, it is the fact that people think it is perfectly acceptable to tell anyone what to do with their own THINGS they made, their property they made.

If the question is how the items are destroyed, some environmental impacts, that would be one thing (some costs added to disposing of THINGS, there are always costs). But fundamentally this is so much worse, it is some authority commanding your life in a way that shouldn't be possible.

Survival Research Labs has been fighting robots (with flamethrowers, etc.) since 1979. See https://youtu.be/1Cp7aD0q63g?s...

However I'm more excited to see autonomous robots fight!

after death there are no more issues to solve also, what's your point?

Inflation is the drain on the nation. The reason for all of these 1 Trillion dollar companies is that there are all of these money created by the various governments and banks propped up by government entities, all of the bail outs, money printing, quantitative easing (money printing), etc., all of it is inflation, i.e. expansion of the money supply. Much of it is driven by the pathetically low interest rates, manipulated by the government over the last few decades (as the governments got off the gold), all of it means simply that prices for things (including stock valuations) go up, none of it is increase in any actual productivity, all of it is bad for the world and global economies no matter what the likes of Paul Krugmans and other Keynesian charlatans are telling you.

Basically a trillion dollars is not what it used to be, it used to be inconceivable, now it is just another Tuesday.

The economy started collapsing once the government introduced such concepts that allowed it to get to the point of the collapse. 2007 was a result of a number of wrong and bad decisions, it was not the cause. The cause is the government expansion, printing of paper money, federal reserve controlling and manipulating interest rates to be below what market would set, various rules, laws, regulations and taxes that prevent formation of capital and of businesses and promote outsourcing manufacturing.

What we are observing now is just many lines of bad decisions coming together into a single point, everything is being focused together and comes into light.

The reasons for all of this is corruption bottom up and top down, it is people expecting free shit to be handed out by government, expectations are that some people will pay for others, it doesn't matter if we are talking about income taxes, bank bailouts, housing subsidies, various rules and regulations, it is just a culmination of the effects of all of these causes.