I sometimes wonder if the earth is trying to remove us, its own infection of sorts. If memory serves this was also the plot of some terrible M Night Shyamalan movie.
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Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
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Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. This is the reason I absolutely don't want to see airlines or airframe manufacturers bailed out. That industry needs to shrink. If that means fewer flights available and higher prices in the future, that's a net positive for the planet as people will have to be more selective about travel. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_ins...
"If that means fewer flights available and higher prices in the future, that's a net positive for the planet as people will have to be more selective about travel." I've lurked near daily on HN for over five years - and this is the unfortunate comment I finally feel the need to make an account to reply to. I presume you're living in the U.S. based on your comment. I too live in the U.S., with severely debilitating he…
Right, but:
>I receive no government assistance financially, because our medical system is shit on recognition of many musculoskeletal illnesses. My insurance is also shit in general, because medical care availability is shit in the U.S.
This is your problem, and the ultimate solution to that problem is not "cheap flights" - that is no more than a workaround, with huge collateral damage.
This is broadly analogous to https://xkcd.com/1172/
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#73I sometimes wonder if the earth is trying to remove us, its own infection of sorts. If memory serves this was also the plot of some terrible M Night Shyamalan movie.
While you may be suggesting this more as a not-to-be-taken-entirely-serious, there probably is some truth to it: evolution. Accoriding to the red queen hypothesis, noone (species) can ever win evolution, you can only constantly adapt and select. There is no reason to believe that humans have overcome this. Now with billions of humans in existance, any small weakness all these humans have that another species can expl…
I’m getting a few downvotes but it’s honestly something I think about a lot. I believe we are incapable of understanding some things about how this (waves hands around in circles) all works. And one of those things could be how the earth might view us as it tries to survive as well.
Probably a little wolololo for this HN post but still something I enjoy dwelling on.
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#74As noted in the article, the headline is misleading. The population obviously hasn't quadrupled since Yosemite closed to visitors on March 20th. It is remarkable though to see how quickly wildlife is willing to re-enter areas that have historically been overrun with humans!
If you say that the population of a city has doubled, it mostly means that people moved there, not that they were born there. The headline is fine.
All: Obviously the bears weren't born in the last month. Please assume basic intelligence in your fellow readers.
Edit: Ok you guys, I surrender. There is no fighting the dreaded title fever. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, the best solution is for you to move to a more densely populated area. Not necessarily to a mega-expensive city—although we should make those more accessible too—but somewhere close enough that you don't need air travel to get treatment. And there should be social programs that can make this financially possible. It would totally suck for you, I realize that. Unfortunately, our society simply cannot co…
There are many large cities in the Midwest. Flying to California/Massachusetts implies that the problem is a rare disease, not that it's a population density issue.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are many large cities in the Midwest. Flying to California/Massachusetts implies that the problem is a rare disease, not that it's a population density issue.
Yeah, and so that needs to be a consideration in where GP chooses to live. I realize I'm asking them to upend their entire life, but I don't know what else to do. The status quo simply isn't an option.
I don't get to choose where to live. Unless you want another homeless in the streets of SoCal who plagues Greyhound for their doctors appointments.
I was born in the 8th poorest community in the U.S., by parents who were born and lived their lives in the 8th poorest community in the U.S., and had to drop out of my full-ride scholarship college I somehow got from being at the top of my highschool (can't really remember how at this point, partial amnesia from untreated chronic pain) because of complications caused by lack of medical treatment. Couldn't afford it/the ability to get care as a minor without a guardian is near impossible.
If you think you can just choose where you want to live, no matter the desperate circumstances to do so, you must be gleefully unaware of the realities of life, which is something I wouldn't expect from a H.N. poster, for the most part at least...
Some people just had no real chance. It's unfortunate.
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
While you may be suggesting this more as a not-to-be-taken-entirely-serious, there probably is some truth to it: evolution. Accoriding to the red queen hypothesis, noone (species) can ever win evolution, you can only constantly adapt and select. There is no reason to believe that humans have overcome this. Now with billions of humans in existance, any small weakness all these humans have that another species can expl…
I’m getting a few downvotes but it’s honestly something I think about a lot. I believe we are incapable of understanding some things about how this (waves hands around in circles) all works. And one of those things could be how the earth might view us as it tries to survive as well. Probably a little wolololo for this HN post but still something I enjoy dwelling on.
I think you're crazy but downvotes seem unnecessary. I'm upvoting to cancel one out.
And if only that dude would start making good movies again. He can do it, we know that.
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#78> This month is typically a busy month in Yosemite: Of the almost 4.6 million tourists that visited the valley in 2019, about 308,000 came during April. "This month is typically a busy one: less than 1/12th of the number of annual visitors." ️
Perhaps 6-10 of the other months are, on average, less busy.
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Just advocate for a carbon tax and be done with it. Don't arbitrarily decide which industries get to stay and which ones have to go. You ban air travel and suddenly people cover a big chunk of the difference with mass driving, causing significantly more deaths and increased CO2. (Remember: Southwest's most popular route is Dallas Houston which is drive-able)
A train between Houston and Dallas would be practical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Central_Railway I think the biggest blocker on high speed rail is being able to get places once you arrive, without a car. The Northeast Corridor works because you can get anywhere in New York, Boston, and DC with public transportation once you arrive. A lot of cities with intercity train service don't really have that option,…
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Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#80How could a bear population quadruple in a month of lockdown when the gestational period of a bear is 200+ days?
Yosemite is desireable to bears so long as humans aren't occupying it. They moved in from other areas -- allowing the now vacant areas they left to support more bears.