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Alternatively, we could decide to eat more puffins.

by avip 8y ago

throwaway5752 8y ago
Seems like a pretty inappropriate topic to joke about, honestly. Species-level extinction and/or extirpation is a pretty grave matter, and is accelerating. Based on my interests and background, I have very little faith that humanity appreciates the scale of the problem, how intractable it is to short term resolution, and potentially how many people globally could die as a result of it. For example, I think there's a really substantial probability that all people could die within 50 years, because of 1) where climate change is likely to hit worst 2) the desperate nature of famine 3) the number of nuclear armed states in those areas 4) the number of automated counterstrike mechanisms out there. So, get your cheap laughs in about the puffins while you can. edit: To support my negativity, I will just say look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17857964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17857964 to see how complicated something as trivial as building a house is... now, I cannot tell you how to avert global warming, but I can tell you that I have almost no faith at all any given poster here knows what is actually needed to successfully do a climate intervention or durable carbon sequestration program (materials, supply chain, technology, poltical coordination, etc). Another post on here notes we can't even agree to have fewer kids. It's very dire, and very few people seem to appreciate it. For example, the elected leader of the world's largest economy has already reversed policies that reduce CO2 emission and plans on reducing more, and has severely limited research on the subject.
dsfyu404ed 8y ago
If anything this article makes me wonder if they're good to eat. Generally speaking sea birds are to poultry as coons, possum and skunk are to meat.
- fcbrooklyn 8y ago
  They're delicious, but you have to like game. Kind of like a really strong tasting duck, but hard to describe. Maybe a cross between duck breast and liver? That said, they should probably slow down on the hunting until they've worked out what's going on.

Alternatively, we could decide to eat more puffins.

by avip 8y ago

Alternatively, we could decide to eat more puffins.

Seems like a pretty inappropriate topic to joke about, honestly. Species-level extinction and/or extirpation is a pretty grave matter, and is accelerating. Based on my interests and background, I have very little faith that humanity appreciates the scale of the problem, how intractable it is to short term resolution, and potentially how many people globally could die as a result of it. For example, I think there's a really substantial probability that all people could die within 50 years, because of 1) where climate change is likely to hit worst 2) the desperate nature of famine 3) the number of nuclear armed states in those areas 4) the number of automated counterstrike mechanisms out there. So, get your cheap laughs in about the puffins while you can. edit: To support my negativity, I will just say look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17857964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17857964 to see how complicated something as trivial as building a house is... now, I cannot tell you how to avert global warming, but I can tell you that I have almost no faith at all any given poster here knows what is actually needed to successfully do a climate intervention or durable carbon sequestration program (materials, supply chain, technology, poltical coordination, etc). Another post on here notes we can't even agree to have fewer kids. It's very dire, and very few people seem to appreciate it. For example, the elected leader of the world's largest economy has already reversed policies that reduce CO2 emission and plans on reducing more, and has severely limited research on the subject.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

If anything this article makes me wonder if they're good to eat. Generally speaking sea birds are to poultry as coons, possum and skunk are to meat.

fcbrooklyn 8y ago
They're delicious, but you have to like game. Kind of like a really strong tasting duck, but hard to describe. Maybe a cross between duck breast and liver? That said, they should probably slow down on the hunting until they've worked out what's going on.