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Reforestation. Stop eating meat. Stop burning fossil fuels. Use less energy unless your energy is 100% "green". Overthrow capitalism.
At least recycling wasn't in the list, which can be an energy sink and actual climate harm.
In my opinion, the large corporations behind fossil fuels have too much of an economic clout. The governments around the world are dependent on them for a considerable amount of their respective national economy. So yes you are right about government not doing much about this. Ultimately, unless there is a relatively quick mass extinction event, no government is going to be bothered into action. Climate change and th…
For example, without becoming too political, it seems a plausible strategy for Russia to try and control migration from the east to gain influence over the EU.
Depending on the hyperbole, similar conflicts could become war scenarios where your wealth would not be enough to protect you.
Considering this, getting rich is certainly a good advice, but might not be enough. We need to work on de escalating the situation even without any altruistic reasons, if you want to maximise your personal survival chances.
The goal is saving the people, the method to do so is stopping climate change.
We do nothing of the sort. We wait for the sea levels to rise and we build dams and walls. And we reinforce our buildings against natural disasters. And slowly the public demands changes on greenhouse gas emissions, recycling, etc, and it slowly will slow down the worsening effects. That's the most likely scenario, nothing will change because the HackerNews netizens change cloud providers and start recycling more.
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
Thank you for sharing this. It's a dangerous geoengineering project, but it's also a quick solution to a part of the problem. Dangerous: we don't know how the nonlinear weather systems will behave. This may also compound the problem in the future - lots of unknowns. But very quick: We can cool the earth down rather quickly using this method.
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RE the 80%, I expect the food shortage pressures to cause immediate wars that would quickly help shed the excess population. I fully expect to die in such a conflict (or be forced to eat a bullet to avoid the pain of starvation). RE farming and other technology trees, it might be worth it to hedge our bets by trying to develop such simpler tech trees right now. In the worst case, we'd be making life much easier for t…
Just come to my place in the country, here in Iowa. That's what all the family are expecting to do. It's our gathering place. Remote from centers of population, food production facilities and stores everywhere, inhospitable enough to discourage refugees (winter), personal firearm ownership the norm. And our family includes doctors, soldiers, farmers and managers. Kind of the perfect mix!
It seems to me that governments can be counted out of taking the leadership needed to solve this within 12 years.
The way I see it, you have to think of solutions that work within corruption, selfishness, etc, and most importantly, with everybody. People who do that are politicians. It's a voting problem at its heart to me.
I feel like the young people need to take charge of the world because the older generations have had their chance and not fixed it.
Young people aren't less selfish and corrupted than their elders (I mean, maybe, but we don't know that, do we).
Well, we _could_ build a world where the majority of people: * Live in a very well insulated flat in the city that isn't made of concrete * Have meat and dairy only as a luxury item * Use solar and wind power for your heat pump and AC * Ride a bike or walk to work, or take electrically-powered public transport * Use non-luxurious sea transport to go on foreign holidays we'd be about there. But boiling today's young p…
Don't have a lot of hope for this one, people are willing to tell others to change their patterns but will rarely change their own. That way, you get woke points but don't have to do anything. Plus that Tesla looks GREAT in the driveway, especially when you consider that climate change is all everyone else's fault.
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Earth will be fine. Life on Earth will be fine, but that life will be different to the life we have today. The only thing not fine is whether humans survive what they/we ultimately have brought about. But in there is a kind of beautiful justice that the universe has in it's self-correcting algorithm... if you create imbalance, the imbalance will correct in time but perhaps to do so it kills you. If we care about the…
> Earth will be fine. Life on Earth will be fine... TBH statements like these really grate on me. Yes, Earth will be fine in the same sense that you'd be fine if you surgically removed your arms, legs, eyeballs, ears, and tongue and then were fed intravenously and your waste disposed of for you. You might live a long life and have lots of nice dreams. The reality is that we are in early stages of kicking off a cascad…