A capability resists correction when its harms land where its profits do not and when the livelihoods of nearly everyone already depend on it, so correction cannot arrive as a brake and has to arrive as a substitute capability. Ansary, ch. 30: "The profits may seep to the headquarters and their environs, but many of the factories erupt their wastes in what was once called the third world"; "The progress narrative is implicated in all this. We cannot stop inventing and producing"; halting polluting machines means "many an economy would crash millions would be out of work and chaos would ensue", while "machines that run on sources such as wind and solar power offer the prospect of salvation". That this is the externality mechanism of C-CP7NB8061X at planetary scale, and that it narrows C-1N96C7TZQA to correction built as replacement rather than restraint, is Leo's step.

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  The profits may seep to the headquarters and their environs, but many of the factories erupt their wastes in what was once called the third world.

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  The progress narrative is implicated in all this. We cannot stop inventing and producing, and our inventions and products keep proliferating.

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  If threats to the planet's climate were stemmed by halting the production and use of all machines that pollute many an economy would crash millions would be out of work and chaos would ensue

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  machines that run on sources such as wind and solar power offer the prospect of salvation

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  The trouble is, if we want to maintain our standard of living, whatever that standard be, we have to make stuff, move stuff, transport stuff, process stuff, mulch stuff, in short, engage with the material world and alter it.

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