You are assuming that those regulations lead to a better outcome.
This is not very likely given that the amount of issues the world is facing is not going to be solved by alternative energy as we know it, nor by ignoring the very essence of progress.
Reality don't care what way we do thing. It will judge us by our ability to survive whatever it throws at us.
Whether that is astroids hitting earth, lack of resources or simply insufficient use of them.
The engineering progress over the past 40 years have primarily been piggybacking on the 60 years that came before. This is not to take anything away from what have been accomplished, just to say that the fairly safe progress is based on much more risky progress that went before.
You are assuming that those regulations lead to a better outcome.
I'm satisfied by the evidence that they do. We don't have nearly the lead in our bodies that we did in the heyday of lead fuel additives, we don't have asbestos dust permeating our schools, and the ozone hole is shrinking. All of these positive outcomes were the result of regulation.
[Reality] will judge us by our ability to survive whatever it throws at us.
Or whatever we throw at us. The US has an obesity epidemic costing us billions in health care and lost productivity, and it is a problem entirely of our own making.
The engineering progress over the past 40 years have primarily been piggybacking on the 60 years that came before.
This is always true, whatever time period you look at. And looking at the history of technological progress objectively, it is simply absurd to maintain that it is slower now than it was 40 years ago.
This is not very likely given that the amount of issues the world is facing is not going to be solved by alternative energy as we know it, nor by ignoring the very essence of progress.
Reality don't care what way we do thing. It will judge us by our ability to survive whatever it throws at us.
Whether that is astroids hitting earth, lack of resources or simply insufficient use of them.
The engineering progress over the past 40 years have primarily been piggybacking on the 60 years that came before. This is not to take anything away from what have been accomplished, just to say that the fairly safe progress is based on much more risky progress that went before.