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I think we need to start wrestling with the idea that the anticipated climate crisis is impossible to stop and that it's worthwhile to begin preparing to live i
by root_axis 8y ago
I think we need to start wrestling with the idea that the anticipated climate crisis is impossible to stop and that it's worthwhile to begin preparing to live in a world with a warmer climate.
The reality is that most people don't care about climate change and the world's leadership is increasingly hostile to the idea of dealing with it. Even if our leaders were willing, the absolute dominance of private industry in this regard precludes any possibility of progress on the issue of reducing emissions.
On the other hand, we might be able to develop technologies that mitigate the impact of a warmer climate or begin developing and researching strategies to take advantage of agricultural possibilities that might be opened up by a warmer climate. The worst thing we can do right now for the populations that will be impacted by this is to assume there is a possibility that we can curb this disaster rather than taking these 40 to 60 years to brace for impact.
- CM30 8y agoCan't disagree with this. Short of a one world government with dictatorship esque powers (which would be a very bad idea for other reasons), the chances of people magically changing their lifestyle/society completely changing overnight to fix climate change are pretty slim to none. It's science and technology that'll solve these issues, make it possible to live even in 'extreme' conditions and at some eventual point in the future, either reverse or avoid the issue altogether.