Just off the top of my head if you shut down coal fire power plants then the third world goes dark and then none of those people get to lift themselves out of poverty. If you're in a first world modern society you can make the adjustment but not if you're experiencing electricity for the first time in your countries history. There are always winners and losers and ideas like non-zero-sum are usually philosophical musings by those who are winners. Even in a first world country if you were the working poor and all of the sudden gasoline goes up to $12 a gallon like it is in some places in Europe or your electric bill doubles or triples it can decimate your standard of living... They're always winners and losers...
I've decided not to listen to Wright whenever the topic is international relations. He combines good old fashioned liberal naivety about everyone else in the world with good old fashioned liberal guilt about how bad America is, resulting in a formula of "something is only a problem when we do it, and a regrettable fact of nature when anyone else does it."
He is a good interviewer of other people, but I always find his insights chronically naive.
Glenn, I'm confused about how things work on your different platforms. Most of us subscribed to you on substack. Do we need to subscribe to substack and to the Glenn channel?
If you use Youtube at all, then you should subscribe there as well—it will just make Youtube recommend you Glenn's videos more (it would also help the new channel grow, because Youtube will recommend it to more people).
But you don't have to do anything to continue getting the show through Substack or the podcast feed.
It's not terribly difficult to make a case that everything is zero-sum... Even global warming and nuclear proliferation...
how?
Just off the top of my head if you shut down coal fire power plants then the third world goes dark and then none of those people get to lift themselves out of poverty. If you're in a first world modern society you can make the adjustment but not if you're experiencing electricity for the first time in your countries history. There are always winners and losers and ideas like non-zero-sum are usually philosophical musings by those who are winners. Even in a first world country if you were the working poor and all of the sudden gasoline goes up to $12 a gallon like it is in some places in Europe or your electric bill doubles or triples it can decimate your standard of living... They're always winners and losers...
Bessner followed by Wright.......................c'mon man.
Wright's solution to every problem is "international cooperation". How's that working out on Covid?
Wright's ever present example of an existential problem requiring international cooperation is "climate change", about which he knows diddley squat.
I signed up for Wright's substack after his last appearance with Glenn. I canceled after 3 months.
I've decided not to listen to Wright whenever the topic is international relations. He combines good old fashioned liberal naivety about everyone else in the world with good old fashioned liberal guilt about how bad America is, resulting in a formula of "something is only a problem when we do it, and a regrettable fact of nature when anyone else does it."
He is a good interviewer of other people, but I always find his insights chronically naive.
Glenn, I'm confused about how things work on your different platforms. Most of us subscribed to you on substack. Do we need to subscribe to substack and to the Glenn channel?
If you use Youtube at all, then you should subscribe there as well—it will just make Youtube recommend you Glenn's videos more (it would also help the new channel grow, because Youtube will recommend it to more people).
But you don't have to do anything to continue getting the show through Substack or the podcast feed.
Thanks for the information.