Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
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Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#2This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#3I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge.
I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#4I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge. I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
"I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour."
Maybe it's time to lay off the news media & apocalyptical documentaries for a while. Can't imagine this is a very healthy way to live.
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#5I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge. I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
> I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
Sometimes the tech community just lives in another world. In reality: work, bills, screaming kids and life get in the way of thinking about anything but yourself. When I was 21 I was the same (vegan, vegetarian, telling people about BPA, not touching receipts with my hands yadda yadda yadda).
Now I'm 30 and as far as I can tell, nothing changed, I didn't die from too much exposure to plastics, the world still is spinning but I have a lot more on my plate to think about than watching documentaries and fear mongering myself into depression.
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#6I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge. I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
You could get killed walking your doggie. Or get cancer. Or have a stroke. Tomorrow.
Worrying about your post-apocalyptic world that might happen doesn’t consume many of my brain cycles. I’d much rather worry about things that are likely to happen in the short term.
Edit: no, my child’s death from thirst, famine, violence or disease is not a forgone conclusion.
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#7This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...
We were supposed to have an ice-free artic year around by now, but here we are. Not sure I’d put much weight on the worst case scenarios.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-c...
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#8This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...
We were supposed to have an ice-free artic year around by now, but here we are. Not sure I’d put much weight on the worst case scenarios. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-c...
"We were supposed to have an ice-free artic year around by now, but here we are. Not sure I’d put much weight on the worst case scenarios."
I hadn't heard of an estimate of being ice-free by 2020-21. Per this recent National Geographic source, it is likely to happen as early as 2035.
[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/arctic-su...
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#9I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge. I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
> I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
My boy is 11 months old and I'm already training him to be an expert swordsman for his inevitable victory in the wastelands
Re: Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN [video]
#10This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...
We were supposed to have an ice-free artic year around by now, but here we are. Not sure I’d put much weight on the worst case scenarios. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-c...
Are you aware that he is talking about summer?