I actually really liked the article.
I'm rather shocked because this article reads very similar to the messaging Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg for like 2 years.
Tough truths about climate
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#102Everyone who cares about climate change needs to stop talking about it in C to an American audience. 2 degrees sounds small, but 3.6 degrees F is significant. 3 degrees still sounds reasonably small, but 5.6 degrees F is getting to be a lot. Generally speaking Americans have no idea how much a 2 or 3 degree C difference is in F and so they just hear 2 or 3 degrees F.
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#103Actual title: "Three tough truths about climate"
For better or worse, the HN software automatically edits titles. Perhaps the word "Three" was removed automaticallly. Submitters can fix these changes by using the "edit" URL
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For the developed world, climate change will be annoying but not serious. Spillover of problems like mass migration away from the equator and increase in conflicts.
Also increased threat of far-right rule in democracies and general dehumanizing attitude toward people in trouble.
That's not a prediction, it's a current reality. It's already prescribed by calling circumstances people have no control over "being in trouble":
but that is certainly not wrong!
If someone smashes your windows at night, robs you, you're in trouble.
If you're being threatened with a weapon, you're in trouble.
But you're also in trouble when you leave your house in a freezing night and don't remember to put your keys in your pocket.
If you're unlawfully detained, you're in trouble, as much as you are in trouble when you're detained for a good reason.
Dehumanizing people who are "in trouble" is as old as humanity itself.
Rape victims are also in trouble.
Even worse, trouble tends to accumulate and amplify existing trouble.
Some people think that's just how the world works.
It's certainly how a world of animals works.
And a "fair" world is hard to imagine, the human condition is partly an attempt to achieve it though.
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> > Tell us some tough truths about Epstein island!
Rich people want to get laid with young , attractive girls who are also well mannered and somewhat cultured and socially mature
Epstein was the curator of that list, kinda like an elite's elite escort agency.
Is the above so hard to grasp and reconcile with? The whole thing has been blown way out of proprtion
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#106> Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Interesting and different perspective vs. what many others often say (but that’s one of the points he’s making). I feel a lot of climate articles — and the comments attached to their H…
Depends on where you are in the world. For the developed world, climate change will be annoying but not serious. The US may have to give up on Miami and New Orleans, and build seawalls for New York. Some crops may have to be grown further north. Some irrigation systems will need upgrades. More power will be needed for air conditioning. Those will not seriously damage a society. After all, right now the biggest proble…
I have been waiting for our leaders to realize we need to build seawalls (not just New York- covering both coasts). Some large contractors are going to make a lot of money.
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#107Bill Gates gets attacked by both the right and the left. But the truth is that he has made huge progress for human welfare in working to eradicate serious diseases as well as by bringing practical solutions to climate issues.
> > Bill Gates gets attacked by both the right and the left
They attack him because he constantly yaps about stuff without being elected or yaps stuff that is not even within the purpose of his 501c3 foundation.
I don't know why he behaves that way honestly, being relevant in the discourse might attract talent to work at the foundation but also produces attacks on the foundation, I guess in his calculus he comes out ahead.
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#108> Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Interesting and different perspective vs. what many others often say (but that’s one of the points he’s making). I feel a lot of climate articles — and the comments attached to their H…
I mean "People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future." Seems pretty fucking doomsday to me. Most Places?
Like I don't think anyone thought the world would implode, but an increase in the number of places humanity can't survive? What if one of those places is South Florida? What if one of those places causes mass emmigration/immigration.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Carbon taxes are probably the most effective tool but politically unpalatable.
What's the advantage over the so far politically palatable carbon trading systems? Seems to me the end result is pretty much the same, except in carbon trading systems the market mechanism automatically adjusts the price to the available quota.
The advantage is that they work. Carbon trading schemes get watered down to the point that they are ineffective.
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#110I don't disagree with his new perspective. OTH, the cynical side of me thinks that the power requirements for AI/Microsoft may be playing into this new position.