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We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
I'm from Florida, and I think this is a good idea. Giving our hurricanes names helps cement them in the collective conscious of the region, and it definitely helps with awareness during early schooling. I don't think having names for hurricanes ever desensitized me to them. The main driver for desensitization is time. It's either been so long since the last catastrophic hurricane that you're underestimating how bad t…
Even snowstorms are pretty much cut and dry. If it snows a lot, it sucks for a couple of days. The biggest variable is the competence of whomever is plowing.
With heat, forget it. “Heatwave Harry” vs “Coldsnap Sally” are exactly the same — there is no variance in hazard. Bad things happen at specific known extreme temperatures.
Are we going to officially name every tornado? Every earthquake? The article leads with “we need more drama...” - I think we have enough, thank you. We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
Climate change is going to kill millions if we don't act hard, and fast. We need a global, coordinated, war-like effort immediately to prevent the displacement of billions and a new world war.
Coronavirus lockdown is not even going to be a blip on the radar compared to life on this planet if we don't start removing carbon from the atmosphere on a global scale.
The fact that it's inconvenient for your stress levels is irrelevant.
Are we going to officially name every tornado? Every earthquake? The article leads with “we need more drama...” - I think we have enough, thank you. We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
We ABSOLUTELY need to make people panic about heatwaves. We need to make people lose sleep about it. Get distracted by it. Feel sick about. Climate change is going to kill millions if we don't act hard, and fast. We need a global, coordinated, war-like effort immediately to prevent the displacement of billions and a new world war. Coronavirus lockdown is not even going to be a blip on the radar compared to life on th…
Panic, sleep deprivation, making people feel sick and stressed is not the way to get those.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's practically slander. Honestly, I don't think Christians even deserve to complain about climate disasters, not with all the effort they put into worshiping an incredibly priggish and unbelievably prudish deity for which weather-powered slaughterfests have always been such a go-to. And I mean say what you like about Ishtar, at least she gets that people are gonna fuck.
Are you suggesting that in Christianity they don't have sex? Sex is important in all religions, or their populations would die.
Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names. Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour. Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.
That's practically slander. Honestly, I don't think Christians even deserve to complain about climate disasters, not with all the effort they put into worshiping an incredibly priggish and unbelievably prudish deity for which weather-powered slaughterfests have always been such a go-to. And I mean say what you like about Ishtar, at least she gets that people are gonna fuck.
I’m completely nonreligious and have my own gripes with religion in the broad, by the way, so if I’m checking you, you’re way off the deep end. I can see why HN is resistant to humour, because there are a remarkable number of people who can operate Vim but can’t for the life of them figure out a joke without punching down people who aren’t them (or making light of mass shooting events and conspiratorial delusions right upthread).
Suggested HN guideline: Humour is best avoided and left to those with enough empathy to understand when their “sense of humour” is really a catastrophic case of toxic, unpleasant person who thinks their take is hilarious and has enough people around them enabling them to not know any better.
Are we going to officially name every tornado? Every earthquake? The article leads with “we need more drama...” - I think we have enough, thank you. We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
We ABSOLUTELY need to make people panic about heatwaves. We need to make people lose sleep about it. Get distracted by it. Feel sick about. Climate change is going to kill millions if we don't act hard, and fast. We need a global, coordinated, war-like effort immediately to prevent the displacement of billions and a new world war. Coronavirus lockdown is not even going to be a blip on the radar compared to life on th…
Are we going to officially name every tornado? Every earthquake? The article leads with “we need more drama...” - I think we have enough, thank you. We need to consider the psychological affects of these things. We already stir people into collective panics for so many things. Do we need to add another? People need less anxiety in their lives.
We ABSOLUTELY need to make people panic about heatwaves. We need to make people lose sleep about it. Get distracted by it. Feel sick about. Climate change is going to kill millions if we don't act hard, and fast. We need a global, coordinated, war-like effort immediately to prevent the displacement of billions and a new world war. Coronavirus lockdown is not even going to be a blip on the radar compared to life on th…
We will obviously settle on war.
While we are at it, can we change some vocabulary used for sensitising climate change from ' For the planet ' to ' Your children will die soon, your grandchildren sooner '?
Give natural disasters a CVE code