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> my concern is our ability to implementing them well, quickly, at human scale, is another thing all together. We don't need to. There is no looming climate ap

> my concern is our ability to implementing them well, quickly, at human scale, is another thing all together. We don't need to. There is no looming climate apocalypse coming that will require large-scale measures in a few years. FWIW, a single farmer figured out here in Austria, where it's too cold and dry for rice normally, how to grow organic rice in basically 2 years of cheap experiments. He's selling it for a living now. Don't underestimate our ability to adapt.

neom 7y ago
There are a lot of people in Africa, India and Brazil with much less stable governance systems and infrastructure. Even if in 15 years we noted some shift in the climate that was going to impact tens of millions of people in these regions within 5 years thereafter, I don't know I believe humanity is well prepared to mobilize for that. To me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape.
- lazyjones 7y ago
  > o me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape. It's called "climate anxiety".
- DoreenMichele 7y ago
  To me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape. I have a serious medical condition. Due to physiological processes related to my health issues, I sometimes have big spikes in anxiety. I typically project that anxiety onto other things and then catastrophize about social stuff or financial stuff in my life. I believe that dynamic is actually much more common than is generally recognized. For many people, fear of climate change may well be an unrecognized metaphor that fits with the idea that "I have a very big and threatening (personal) problem that I don't know how to solve, one so bad it is threatening to destroy my whole world." I'm fortunate that I am aware of the somatopsychic side effects of my health issues, plus I live with my two adult sons who can tell me "Mom, we're fine. You are just having an anxiety attack because of (health thing)." It appears that most people don't even recognize that somatopsychic effects exist at all, much less have some means to do a reality check and say "This is probably not really a reaction to The News. It's probably really a reaction to (health thing)."
  - neom 7y ago
    That must be really difficult to deal with. I'm grateful that I feel happy and healthy. I think my analogy was mis-understood? it's certainly not me that i'm worried about, I'll be just fine.

neom 7y ago

There are a lot of people in Africa, India and Brazil with much less stable governance systems and infrastructure. Even if in 15 years we noted some shift in the climate that was going to impact tens of millions of people in these regions within 5 years thereafter, I don't know I believe humanity is well prepared to mobilize for that. To me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape.

lazyjones 7y ago
> o me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape. It's called "climate anxiety".
DoreenMichele 7y ago
To me it feel like we're going to end up having cancer in a burning building facing knife fights as we try to escape. I have a serious medical condition. Due to physiological processes related to my health issues, I sometimes have big spikes in anxiety. I typically project that anxiety onto other things and then catastrophize about social stuff or financial stuff in my life. I believe that dynamic is actually much more common than is generally recognized. For many people, fear of climate change may well be an unrecognized metaphor that fits with the idea that "I have a very big and threatening (personal) problem that I don't know how to solve, one so bad it is threatening to destroy my whole world." I'm fortunate that I am aware of the somatopsychic side effects of my health issues, plus I live with my two adult sons who can tell me "Mom, we're fine. You are just having an anxiety attack because of (health thing)." It appears that most people don't even recognize that somatopsychic effects exist at all, much less have some means to do a reality check and say "This is probably not really a reaction to The News. It's probably really a reaction to (health thing)."
- neom 7y ago
  That must be really difficult to deal with. I'm grateful that I feel happy and healthy. I think my analogy was mis-understood? it's certainly not me that i'm worried about, I'll be just fine.