Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

youtube.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

351–360 of 884 posts

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#351

Post by jjackson5324 »

pk-protect-ai wrote: post #330
jjackson5324 wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lmfao I think this is the actual video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 Somehow OP must've linked to the RDCWorld video by mistake and somehow this still got to the top of HN? I guess HN just upvotes without clicking the link?

The video link was correct at the start. I believe that OP has decided to change it due to rate of doomism and rising depression levels.

Oh... I didn't realize you could change the link like that?

Uhh isn't that a big flaw with HN if you can?

(for example, link to a blog post that would be popular with the community to get upvotes, then switch it up for your own company blog or something to get the traffic)

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#352

Post by goatlover »

automatic6131 wrote: post #325
johnea wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Weird. I used to worry about climate change and now I don’t. That's funny! I was going to start my post with the exact same sentence! But for a totally different reason: I'm now convinced that there is no stopping the massive destruction of the natural environemnt. A much MUCH bigger problem than that of the climate alone. I'm not a "doomer", I'm a "realist". It's clear at this point that the world's ownership clas…

>the world's ownership class is NOT going to allow any significant mitigation of petroleum use. "We" - the Western voting public broadly, but also much of East Asia too - are the owning class. If you actually removed everything in our lives that depend on petroleum products, it would be a riot before the end of the month. I don't think people quite realize how much of our lives are propped up by the downstream produc…

Some of the doomers are accelerationists and just want to get the worst over with now. I think that's foolish and untenable, but it makes more sense of their arguments.

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#354

Post by badpun »

jokoon wrote: post #264

I live in the south of france, and I really need to move to a cooler region in france. Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well. I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy. I have been postponing for 4 years now. I am reading The Ministry Of The Future, it's a great book. India will be the first to suffer from this.

AC could be cheaper than the cost of a move, not to mention you wouldn't have to uproot your life?

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#355

Post by graphe »

lynx23 wrote: post #274

I was always pro-environment and pro-more-industry-regulations, since I can think. Then came Greta and the doomsayers. Realising there is really nothing more I can do--I am already walking to work and don't even own a car--I stopped supporting apocalypse-loving-movements and went back to living my life as I used to do. I was developed an aversion for the climate apocalypse movement since. I wonder, if they managed to…

I'm the same. I'm a quiet greenish person. I don't own a car I walk and I hate these death cults whose sole nihilism is that you shouldn't exist, you were born into Original Sin™ for being the wrong sex/gender/race/country, and when you aren't busy killing off things you enjoy, you yourself can only be green when you die. The logistical thing to these cults is suicide to prevent global warming, so they mentally circle the drain constantly.

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#356

Post by sgt »

Qem wrote: post #323
jokoon wrote: post #264

I live in the south of france, and I really need to move to a cooler region in france. Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well. I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy. I have been postponing for 4 years now. I am reading The Ministry Of The Future, it's a great book. India will be the first to suffer from this.

> Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well. I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy. Did you try sleeping in hammocks already? It's a solution that works reasonably well for me.

Hammocks - the poor man's AC?

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#357

Post by Qem »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #262
sgt101 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my observations the current rightwing meme is that women in rich countries haven't had sufficient numbers of children and measures to drive increased population should be put in place. This is congruent with removing women's bodily autonomy, banning abortion and banning or restricting birth control of all types.

> This is congruent with removing women's bodily autonomy, banning abortion and banning or restricting birth control of all types. There is absolutely no need to do any of that. Just tax them. Tax the childless and unmarried more. Tax the married couples with children less. Make not having children a form of wealth and tax it accordingly. The results will be achieved without a single sacrifice in personal autonomy.

Tax all corporations discriminating against parents and fertile-age women in their hiring processes.

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#358

Post by pvaldes »

jokoon wrote: post #264

I live in the south of france, and I really need to move to a cooler region in france. Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well. I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy. I have been postponing for 4 years now. I am reading The Ministry Of The Future, it's a great book. India will be the first to suffer from this.

If you live in a rural area without too much noise, soak a sheet, hang it in front of the open window before to go to bed. Put a bucket or something below to save the water drops from ending in the soil. Enjoy the cooling effect of the evaporation

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#359

Post by refurb »

pk-protect-ai wrote: post #145

I no longer worry. I'm extremely pessimistic about the impending climate change. I believe Sabine isn't pessimistic enough about what to anticipate. Consider the tundra methane emissions and the explosive release of methane-hydrates from the oceans, along with water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas. The disaster looming over all ecosystems (a mass extinction event) that will happen in decades and the doom-phase could l…

Humanity not surviving? That seems completely unlinked to any sort of scientific consensus.

Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

#360

Post by jdthedisciple »

donum wrote: post #345
jdthedisciple wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what if?? Why are you @-ing dang as if his job is to maintain some kind of particular consensus in order to ... idk, support some kind of political narrative? Hah!

[flagged]

Huh, OP doesn't strike me as a conservative- quite the opposite, given their fearful lamenting of an alleged "rightwards shift".

> Not support, but prevent.

Well, supporting one obv. meaning preventing the other..

Post reply on HN