an open secret is that this argument applies to basically every conservation issue, as it almost always puts into direct opposition immediate human quality of life and longer term aesthetic concerns

listen to revealed preferences. people don't care. mb they should but they don't
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RT @midwit100
Starlink is good actually for precisely this reason. If astronomers want us to take them seriously then they’ll quit being little bitches and …
https://twitter.com/midwit100/status/1395188973870407681