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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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You can do something about this. I got involved in climate advocacy in 2021. Since then I’ve successfully lobbied my local government to start an energy resources study, which will look at ways for my community to quickly transition to renewables. A small thing. But if we all do small things, it will add up! Still though. My state, Arizona has really terrible people writing awful laws. This legislative session they’r…

Didn't like the whole world stop during covid? It should be equivalent to 50-100 years of climate activism, and what? didn't even make a dent?

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

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Covid was no joke, 3 million people died despite the entire world grinding to a halt and hiding in their houses for months. Sea levels are up 10 cm since Gore was VP and it's accelerating.

25 mln of excess death.

Where did you get that number? I initially just looked up WHO's estimate which turns out quite the lowball compared to what everyone else is listing, but most sources I can find seem to say something around 5-9M. I suppose it most depends on just how much China is fudging their numbers since they had the most people exposed at the worst time.

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

#813

You can do something about this. I got involved in climate advocacy in 2021. Since then I’ve successfully lobbied my local government to start an energy resources study, which will look at ways for my community to quickly transition to renewables. A small thing. But if we all do small things, it will add up! Still though. My state, Arizona has really terrible people writing awful laws. This legislative session they’r…

Quick google search of the AZ law says it will tax solar energy exported to other states and divide the proceeds among the local residents, which sounds a bit more nuanced than your summary. Not saying it's positive, but it's not clear to me that it's negative without more details; some form of this could incentivize more of the land to be used for solar, for example. I actually thought that this sort of law would be disallowed by the fed, since they reserve the right to govern interstate commerce.

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

#814

You can do something about this. I got involved in climate advocacy in 2021. Since then I’ve successfully lobbied my local government to start an energy resources study, which will look at ways for my community to quickly transition to renewables. A small thing. But if we all do small things, it will add up! Still though. My state, Arizona has really terrible people writing awful laws. This legislative session they’r…

Didn't like the whole world stop during covid? It should be equivalent to 50-100 years of climate activism, and what? didn't even make a dent?

From what I've read (can't find the source, sorry), it did have an effect, but it needs to repeat every year on top of the previous one to have the effect to stay below the 2.0 celsius avg.

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

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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…

Quoting myself (again) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36619271 : - There's no climate change - Climate change is okay and has no impact - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes and its impacts are small - Climate change exists but its impacts are good for us - Climate change exists but we will adapt - Climate change exists and its the activist…

Your list of deniers seems to have a majority of non-deniers. What is your point?

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

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Quoting myself (again) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36619271 : - There's no climate change - Climate change is okay and has no impact - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes and its impacts are small - Climate change exists but its impacts are good for us - Climate change exists but we will adapt - Climate change exists and its the activist…

Your list of deniers seems to have a majority of non-deniers. What is your point?

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

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Quoting myself (again) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36619271 : - There's no climate change - Climate change is okay and has no impact - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes - Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes and its impacts are small - Climate change exists but its impacts are good for us - Climate change exists but we will adapt - Climate change exists and its the activist…

Your list of deniers seems to have a majority of non-deniers. What is your point?

It's a process.

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

#818

It's extremely frustrating to watch our world deteriorating because politicians aren't willing to actually do their jobs and govern. I'd go even stronger and, for the US, pass regulations that all emissions of all kinds must be captured or the company will be fined double the cost of environmental remediation as executed by contractors employed by the government (scaling from 1% of the fine to 100% of the fine over X…

They are governing according to the will of the people (to some degree). Fact is that outside the western intelligentsia nobody really gives a shit about climate change and why would they? For people without children, certainly it is not their problem. The world's resources are plenty enough for this generation and even the next. Everyone else would be stupid to sacrifice their own wealth for an absolutely minuscule chance of improvement without an enforcible promise that their neighbours will do the same. They will just end up doing it all for nothing. It's a typical tragedy-of-the-commons dilemma.

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

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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 circl…

Well said, and more eloquent then I could be.

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

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Minulla lemppari urheilulaji :D se kehittyy hitaasti mutta varmasti. I actually maintain several online Finnish learning resources now, including a flashcard deck of the most common 10,000 words from the YLE study way back [1], a command line lemmatizer [2], and a website whose permissions I need to refresh ASAP which archives Selkouutiset with YYYY/MM/DD URLs [3]. Indeed building these tools were what got me back in…

I love languages, but I've been scared off of Finnish because I have heard that it has impossibly complicated grammar. Is this true? Or is there a logic to it that can be easily understood?

There is indeed a logic to it, and I'm currently working on an edutainment game meant to focus on drilling this part in particular.

Finnish has 15 noun cases, but it's probably better thought of as 4+6+5 cases. The first 4 are pretty straightforward, except for the partitive, which is kind of a catch-all case. The middle 6 correspond to certain spatial relationships. Very roughly you can imagine these as {inside, outside} × {unmoving, moving closer, moving further}. Huone = room, huoneessa = in room, huoneen = into (=moving closer to the inside of) room. That kind of stuff. The last 5 have niche, special uses. That's how I mentally imagine them at least, there are a lot of details you only pick up by reading a lot.

The trade-off is that Finnish has virtually no prepositions, which English has a lot of, and which are similarly very confusing for beginners and even intermediate English speakers. There are a few post-positions, but even these are mostly things you can pick up by ear.

Verbs have a similar story. If you've ever learned Latin, Russian or Spanish you'll feel right at home with Finnish verbs, which pack a lot of info into the conjugation, but with the benefit of requiring fewer actual words per sentence.

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