For those that didn’t read yet, the author is saying a super volcanic eruption that killed off 96% of the world is climate change. Maybe this author would also argue that a meteor hitting the earth is actually climate change killing the dinosaurs.
Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
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Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
#12I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…
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Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do something then, you can be the example to us all.
> We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.
Thats a load of dung. We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning, but we are by no means going extinct.
Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN
https://www.drawdown.org/ https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
and currently pushing modern humans into extinction again
Ridiculous statements like this do not encourage people to take the real serious problems of global warming seriously. It's a crisis which will be a catastrophe, but under no plausible endgame is extinction for us.
I for one hope that Humans might push back climate change.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.
Thats a load of dung. We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning, but we are by no means going extinct. Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN https://www.drawdown.org/ https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted But there isn't anything to do. We missed our chance.
Thats a load of dung. We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning, but we are by no means going extinct. Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN https://www.drawdown.org/ https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
> We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning
Yes... because we missed our chance to solve for this.
I get that humans on the whole will survive. But the "be the change you want to see in the world" type of feel goodery is complete bs. "You" are not the problem for climate change. Our politics are the problem and we seem determined to not solve that.
Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats a load of dung. We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning, but we are by no means going extinct. Focus on solutions & building resislency, not doom posting on HN https://www.drawdown.org/ https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet
> We will no doubt be ravaged by climate change and are likely to reach 1.5 - 2 degrees warning Yes... because we missed our chance to solve for this. I get that humans on the whole will survive. But the "be the change you want to see in the world" type of feel goodery is complete bs. "You" are not the problem for climate change. Our politics are the problem and we seem determined to not solve that.
I will not assume what country you are from or how active you are in your local community, but here in the US among progressive or environmental groups we have seen a great deal of progress on the state & federal level on fixing the system. Lots of people are determined to solve this, sadly there is a lot of opposition too.
Don't be the change you want to see in the world, demand the change you want to see in your system. Don't rollover & accept defeat
Re: Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction
#19I notice how the last time, a lot of these climate change posts go uncommented for a long time. Personally, I always feel gloom and doom when seeing them. We are fucked, there is no known scalable way to fix the damage if we wanted, and in fact the western world is partying straight into disaster. Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on? For what its worth, I see some hope the last…
> Maybe I'm not alone here, so the stories get voted up but not commented on?
IDK, maybe.
Hypothesis:
1. Although we think its important we are tired of it because its always the same story. 2. Although we ACK the problem we want to avoid news about the imminent problem that we as individuals can not really act against.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ridiculous statements like this do not encourage people to take the real serious problems of global warming seriously. It's a crisis which will be a catastrophe, but under no plausible endgame is extinction for us.
I for one hope that Humans might push back climate change .
More likely that we adapt to it. There's nothing we can do once things get out of control on a planetary scale.