I found Fishkin article more convincing that this one. The author seems to try to justify his worth (and job) rather than understanding the ads market.
Unfortunately, no country would do it on its own, knowing that a neighbor could have an economic advantage. By making it a global problem with a global treaty, it makes everyone accountable. Like the Cold War weapons race: until the Arm treaty, it was going nowhere. Me and my neighbors driving an electric car won't make a difference until oil companies feel the pressure from international laws
Her point is that no country can survive with zero tax. Everyone knows that. In order to have roads, schools, hospitals, parks, police, you need everyone to chip in, specially huge corporations who know how to subvert the system for their own benefit (meaning their shareholders)
As a normal guy, it is hard to understand the extremes to which a company will avoid taxes, basically getting all the profit to it's stakeholders, and none to the ones who made it possible for them to succeed (the workers, the ones who built the roads, the ones who provides the education to their kids...)
I agree. Just saying "it's not my fault, it's the others: they are the culprit, not me" is what led us here. Without reducing meat consumption (and many other actions), the crisis won't go away
I disagree. Killing animals just because humans have been doing is not the answer. I'd rather go with plant-based diet than ignoring the harm even small family farms do to animals, and the environment.
The problem with this line of thinking is that it might be a little short-sighted. Since we are intelligent, we should be careful. With great powers come great responsibility.
If someone doesn't like hurricanes, they can move where there is none.
When Earth will be 99% inhabitable (because of air pollution, soil degradation, lack of water), is the solution just to say "oh well", let's go to Mars?
Not every weed moves as fast as a virus. It might take decades before we realize that some species have disappeared, and in their wake, others are going too, and we are left with a homogeneous ecosystem where a new virus will come and be even worse (like the wheat rust which decimated the single species of wheat growing in North America).
Obviously, Nature, being random, might cause destruction on its own (like when plants appeared and the high level of oxygen they produced killed earlier species), but this happens on millions of years. And sure, nothing prevents "Nature" from killing humans too. We are not more precious than any other species, from the Nature point of view.