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Lets hope climate warming will kick in this winter. Or 30 million refugees from Ukraine will flood Europe...
Lets hope climate warming will kick in this winter. Or 30 million refugees from Ukraine will flood Europe...
There might be as many people from Pakistan, East Africa, or China who have to migrate because of global warming this winter too. Not sure whether they’ll go to Europe, but millions isn’t an exaggeration in those cases.
> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.
I enjoyed it very much. It was good. Winter is coming now.
What's galling about the stupidity of mass media is their ability to spin a story by focusing on 4 weeks, without any scope or informed consideration of a bigger picture.
> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.
I don’t enjoy warm autumn weather because The Economist tells me to. I don’t think avoiding talking about the weather like a human is necessary or helpful for dealing with climate change. But perhaps part of this is that I generally don’t believe that fixing climate change has much to do with terrifying the public about it. Furthermore, it’s generally untrue that any particular warm October is due to climate change b…
We should avoid the association between climate and short term weather phenomenon altogether.
And yes, the COVID lockdowns showed the limits of individual action on climate change. Even if people can't leave their house (except for some limited purposes) the reduction in carbon emissions are relatively small. It's a problem for government and industry to solve in the main. The only difficulty is how to ensure that we elect governments who take it seriously without scaring some people?
On the other hand, if we could stop considering only the economic aspect of everything and see that the downside of this is that we are destroying our water reserves that took thousands of years to accumulate...
Unfortunately, that does not translate to lower customer-end prices.
Unfortunately, that does not translate to lower customer-end prices.
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