Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe? • Hacker News Board

Post by davidhbolton » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 9:28 AM UTC

junon wrote: post #85

user-the-name wrote: post #54

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You know what will drastically reduce your standard of living? Climate change. Sure, it would be lovely to find a solution that would require no sacrifice from anyone. That is what everyone wants. It doesn't exist. If it did, do you think people have just been ignoring it? When it is exactly what everyone wants? No. Sacrifice is required, to avoid an even greater sacrifice in the future. And it is time for you to ste…

> It doesn't exist. This has been decided? By who? When? Can you prove this?

It's more the case that as Carl Sagan said "If you're making an extraordinary claim you should have extraordinary evidence".

So where is the extraordinary evidence for Climate Crisis? People have been claiming this or similar for the last 30 years giving us deadlines that have been repeatedly passed. So what's different now? nothing as far as I can see.