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The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by lkbm »

glitchc wrote: post #68
nisegami wrote: post #43

Are we ready to have a discussion about seeding the upper atmosphere with SO2 yet?

Can we say for certain that doing so would not have an unintended side effect, given how complex the biodome is? If not, then likely no.

I can understand a no answer from people who think climate change is no big deal, but it's kind of weird that people who think climate change will kill hundreds of millions -- possibly everyone -- say no on the grounds that it has risks.

Possible unintended side effects is better than "everyone dies".

Ten years ago, I was saying we should experiment with it on a small scale so that if it does become necessary, we're not shooting blind, but even then the doomers were opposed because of "risks". You know what else has risks? Unmitigated climate change!

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by K0balt »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #19
inigyou wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the 90s it was something to deal with later. Now that it's something to deal with right now, of course they won't cover it. In a few decades they'll cover it again, but only to say how it's too late now. Another factor is that rich oil and gas people figured out they could just buy the media.

Why would it be too late?

Because photosynthesis grinds to a halt at about 40c. This is what people are missing. Climate change isn’t the world hiding in their apartments with the AC blasting, its cities burning a week after everything seemed fine.

Civilisation takes millennia of stable, plentiful resources to create, and a week without food for 30 percent of the population to utterly destroy.

I’d love to be wrong, if you disagree please say why.

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by horsawlarway »

NopIdoN wrote: post #58
soco wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least in theory, our governments are voted in place exactly by us. Trump voters loved his ideas and he's implementing them now, yay success. Also industrial pollution is fueled by our buying habits just as well - if nobody would order stuff brought by ship from overseas, well, we wouldn't have many of those huge(ly) polluting ships around. So I wouldn't leave out the personal responsibility here: we make decisions…

did our buying habits force AI into everything?

To face this directly: I think an honest answer is probably "yes".

Our buying habits empowered the type of company that wants to put AI into everything. Whether they continue to do so or not will also depend on our buying habits going forward.

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by ear7h »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #2

It's quite striking to note how media coverage of climate change and pollution have gone down so much. I remember in the 90's it was very much in the popular mileu. What's more we are living through an actual green revolution. Solar power and batteries have never been so cheap - and still promising to get cheaper and better with sodium ion batteries.

I think this has to do with the fact that the public has caught on to greenwashing. One example that sticks out in my head is the "save a tree use a plastic bag" thing. I think the appeal to environmentalism was enough to change customer behavior, or at least not cause resistance, but the real motivation for the change was probably financial.

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by stahtops »

geertj wrote: post #99

Sadly I think the only solution is to invest to build more energy infrastructure and more AI, so that in the future when the shit really hits the fan we have enough energy and assistance from AI to create a scalable technology to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere proactively. In my view there is no credible future in which the world will become carbon neutral in 1 or even 10 years. It just ain't happening. This is one o…

Like a tree planting robot?

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by stahtops »

ghusto wrote: post #109

> This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions ... “Manifest Destiny.” “Aryan superiority.” “The divine right of kings.” “The domino theory.” “Israel has a right to defend itself.” aaaand, you lost me.

Was it domino theory?

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by breezybottom »

altacc wrote: post #61
breezybottom wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't reddit. If you have data that supports this assertion, show it.

Are you asking for data to show there's reduced media coverage about climate change? If you look at the article there's a graph in there from Media Matters showing the decline. This isn't reddit, here you're expected to do more than read the headline ;)

No it doesn't. That graph shows minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC, and FOX; a cherry picked stat that excludes newspapers, magazines, any non-American media, as well as major networks like MSNOW, or entertainment like Last Week Tonight. This study is more accurate, and less sensationalist.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/02/16/climate-change-med...

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by antiquark »

ghusto wrote: post #109

> This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions ... “Manifest Destiny.” “Aryan superiority.” “The divine right of kings.” “The domino theory.” “Israel has a right to defend itself.” aaaand, you lost me.

Exactly the same point where I determined the article is garbage.

Re: The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

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Post by [deleted] »

stahtops wrote: post #116
ghusto wrote: post #109

> This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions ... “Manifest Destiny.” “Aryan superiority.” “The divine right of kings.” “The domino theory.” “Israel has a right to defend itself.” aaaand, you lost me.

Was it domino theory?

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