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> And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can't respon
by cr0sh 10y ago
> And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can't respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it's really too late.
On the global level (let's say 50-100 years out), do you think we as a species are headed toward an "Easter Island" effect, where we "whistle past the graveyard" and assume everything is "fine" - until it isn't - and at that point we can't do anything and have to deal with the potentially existential consequences?
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoAt the moment, yes we are.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoVery much so. We still have the foot hard on the gas. We haven't even got 10 years of business as usual. The conversation at the moment is about power, but moves to get off fossil are, globally, token. The conversation hasn't got to agri-business, deforestation and meat especially beef, or population, or water. Forests are still being felled and burnt for cattle and palm oil, new fracking is still reported as opportunity for jobs and profit. I'm starting to arrive at the belief that my children's best hope is being amongst the 100m or so left.
- throwayawnotime 10y agoI do
- pkituu 10y agohttp://www.lunarbaboon.com/comics/imminent.html http://www.lunarbaboon.com/comics/imminent.html