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Kaiyou falls off a 10-story building. As he passes the sixth story, someone yells from the window, “How’s it going?” He yells back, “So far, so good!”
by breakyerself 7y ago
Kaiyou falls off a 10-story building. As he passes the sixth story, someone yells from the window, “How’s it going?” He yells back, “So far, so good!”
- Kaiyou 7y agoThis conversation is now 30 years old. Still, so far, so good.
- mikepurvis 7y agoWell, that is the thing about hitting the ground— you can be milliseconds away and everything still looks fine. In a few decades, historians will be able to look back and identify the key events and turning points in all this. I suspect that the stuff we're seeing now will be eventually seen as part of the transition from "getting bad slowly" to "getting bad very quickly". But obviously it's hard to know without the full benefit of hindsight.
- Kaiyou 7y agoI suspect it won't be earlier than in a few centuries.
- adrianN 7y agoAll signs point to you being wrong.
- homonculus1 7y agoWhat data does your suspicion derive from?
- Kaiyou 7y agoBecause historians work on different time scales. Stuff from only a few decades ago is still politics, not history.
- dTal 7y agoThat's quite the non-sequitur. What relationship are you implying between this supposition and the scientific facts of climate change? Would your argument change if it were astronomers telling you an asteroid would hit in 5 years?
- Kaiyou 7y agoI was replying to > In a few decades, historians will be able to look back Historians don't look back only a few decades. That's still politics. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
- dTal 7y agoMy mistake, I thought we were still discussing climate change, not dropping into definitional pedantry. Since we're into definitional pedantry, you're incorrect anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history
- imtringued 7y agoGood riddance
- serpix 7y agofrom what is reported already happening, expect massive (hundreds of millions) climate refugees to really get going within the next five to ten years.