Archive for the 'Environment' Category

 

Gesticulating at thirty thousand feet

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Richard Branson has flown one of his aircraft on biofuels. Two interesting points come out of it.
Firstly, the green lobby has had to accept both that reducing carbon emissions can have economic consquences and that those consequences can be unacceptable. Specifically, various people have (rightly) pointed out that, at the moment, growing crops for biofuels [...]

 

Pascal’s wager and climate change

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

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Pascal’s wager was deeply flawed as it either assumed that you could choose to believe or conflated belief with action. However, it has a useful application to climate change.
The wager is probably best explained with a simple table:

Believe (1)
Don’t Believe (2)

God exists (1)
Heaven
Hell

God doesn’t [...]