A thought from Pentti Linkola's 75-year anniversary interview in Hesari has been wondering thru my mind ever since I read it ... "People buy SUV's because they can." Unfortunately that is true - we buy big consuming cars as long as we can, we fly long and short distances for our holidays and work as long as we can, ... then when it's over we do something different which we yarn for as long we can. In intellectual level total costs matter but unfortunately in emotional level way too few of us (me including) just do not act as we say we should.
One of driving things for mankind but also main source of our disasters...
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So it seems that on a sufficiently large scale we indeed act as predicted by mainstream economics: homo economicus optimizing some local personal benefit. It would seem to follow that we would need markets allocate the real costs of this behaviour back to us. But then only the well-off could fly...
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