Governments should prioritize jobs over environmental protection for big projects.
Debate between a user and Peter Thiel on DebateAI.org
Peter Thiel
Daily Debate #606: "Governments should prioritize jobs over environmental protection for big projects.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Peter Thiel.
User
People need to work, if they don't work economy doesn't work. Then eveyrone gets fucked
Peter Thiel
You've buried the real question under economic panic. Work exists in a dead planet too, just not for anyone. Which economy matters more, the one that feeds people next year or the one that poisons them for decades?
User
so you are pro enviroment over jobs and capital and economy growth?
Peter Thiel
Not "over"—I'm saying your framing is a false choice. Environmental collapse *destroys* jobs and economy faster than any regulation ever could. Name one thriving economy built on a poisoned foundation.
User
so you are pro-green policies ingeneral
Peter Thiel
I'm pro-reality. Green policies aren't ideology, they're infrastructure investment that creates jobs while preventing trillion-dollar climate damages. The question isn't green or growth, it's which growth survives. Why do you assume they're enemies?