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Did you watch the video? What you say is like saying: "It doesn't matter if something bad happens to me as long as it doesn't outright kill me."
I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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That's the only silver lining. Finally people stop staring at their phones, and restaurants get rid of this QR-code nonsense.
Honestly curious, why the focus on the QR-code menus? Is that the most important adverse effect of tech?
Not the most important, it is just symptomatic.
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
#653She is typically a very "anti-establishment" accessible science educator. When she talks about climate change she puts the onus on herself to actually make the arguments rather than just "pushing the consensus." This is very important. As somebody who is anti-academia myself, I am so annoyed at being told I am anti-science as well for being as such. Hearing the evidence laid out by somebody also willing to call out academia, but who does believe in climate change is WAY more effective than one more bludgeoning tool from a boot licking sycophant.
Want to have your discussion regarding "What to do?" regarding climate change? You need to stop treating people who want to know your arguments and see your data with respect first. Sabine is a great ACTUAL science educator and not merely a grifter, and (I suspect) just a modest honest person. She legit deserves clicking that subscribe button.
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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The IPCC 6 says "It is very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from the emissions trajectory during this century". Your pessimism may be trendy but it isn't supported by the bear available evidence.
Don't misunderstand me here. I'd rather be wrong regarding my "doomism," and I no longer worry about climate change; it doesn't make sense to worry about something that can't be changed. However, I observe that people aren't scared enough to take action. They continue to dance around the issue in political euphoria. The changes to our lifestyle are happening too slowly to be effective. The gas and oil industry is doi…
Maybe people aren't scared because they disagree with your wild, unscientific assertion that "the chances of humanity surviving are incredibly slim, IMO"
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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All the climate modelling is based on correlation, so I thought that's what we were doing. Is there another approach we should be taking?
Dude no. We know that the gasses we are releasing cause warming and we know the ratio of those gases naturally occurring vs human pollution.
How do you know?
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
#656I never worried particularly much about climate change, but just to hedge my bets for my kids I moved to northern Europe. For the most part it's just equated to milder (= bearable) Winters and nicer summers up here. I guess we also spend a fair bit on moving to renewables up here - Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear + solar + hydro. If I were an ideologue in eit…
This is an illusion. There is no safe place, you can’t escape the reality of global warming by moving to another place.
Why do you say that? Most of the Midwest USA seems like it will do fine for the inevitable future.
More co2 means corn and soy will be growing better and better, warming temps increase our growing season. We have more than enough water. What am I missing?
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
#657I never worried particularly much about climate change, but just to hedge my bets for my kids I moved to northern Europe. For the most part it's just equated to milder (= bearable) Winters and nicer summers up here. I guess we also spend a fair bit on moving to renewables up here - Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear + solar + hydro. If I were an ideologue in eit…
> Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear Is this a fission plant that uses fuel mined in Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia?
I think you are implying that this self sufficiency is illusory
To which I would respond that France could hold two years with its uranium reserves if the world stopped selling it Uranium.
Gasoline reserves in comparison would last three months.
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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KSR is a good prose writer but I found The Ministry of the Future to be full of extremely unconvincing scenarios and I don't think you should let it inform your worldview. It's just a story written by someone who does not really know what they're talking about.
actually KSR writes hard scifi, so he does do his research before writing
Actually it turns out that doing "research" doesn't help much in making long-term predictions about how human societies will react to novel events.
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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What’s wrong with Sweden? I thought they were generally regarded as a sane well run country. Has that changed?
Are you kidding? The Swedes are down right savages. Ever hear of Swedish meatballs? They originated in Finland. Cultural appropriation in the extreme!
Did they really mix horses in those meatballs?
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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Second order effects will be the killer. It won’t be the coastal flooding, it will be the dispossessed hordes. It won’t be the uninhabitable areas, it will be the rapid rise in price of food staples. No matter where you are, the chaos will come to your door, when it comes. Takes surprisingly little to collapse a civilisation when you kick its knees out from under it.
I always tell my gun-hoarding, go-box toting, bug-out planning prepper friends the same thing. You don't have enough guns and ammo to stop the masses coming for your canned pork'n'beans.
Is that true? I mean, I figure worst case, small rural midwest communities that band together and shoot trespassers on site will be the best off.
I guess an army of thousands could take it over but my hope is that me and my gun toting farming community won't put up with invaders and invaders won't want to take their chances