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"Some climate activists argue that if we publicly admit that the problem can’t be solved, it will discourage people from taking any ameliorative action at all..
by yyyk 7y ago
"Some climate activists argue that if we publicly admit that the problem can’t be solved, it will discourage people from taking any ameliorative action at all... But the impending catastrophe heightens the urgency of almost any world-improving action... these are all meaningful climate actions"
1) Argues that giving up hope does not mean the end of attempts to ameliorate warming.
2) Proceeds to define 'climate action' so broadly that just everything is a climate action, which will disperse and confuse efforts so much, no action on climate will be taken.
- ForHackernews 7y agoNo meaningful action is being taken on climate change: https://climateactiontracker.org/ https://climateactiontracker.org/ How is this article's position going to make that worse?
- adrianN 7y agoIt ensures that no meaningful action will be taken in the next years either.
- ForHackernews 7y agoHow are you so sure of that? We've been trying it your way for 40 years and gotten nowhere https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/c5rjs2/its_that_easy_oc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/c5rjs2/its_that_eas... Maybe telling everyone the truth at this late stage will produce some kind of meaningful reflection. Even it doesn't, it'll still just be the status quo.
- adrianN 7y ago"It's too late for meaningful action" doesn't sound like a slogan that inspires unprecendented change.
- jobigoud 7y agoYes but at the same time not enough people truly believed scientists when they said it was critical, so maybe people won't quite believe the "point of no return" aspect either, and will just react from the remorse of having fucked up the ecosystem. I'm not advocating that approach (yet) but just want to point that it's not a guaranteed failure.
- api 7y agoI think no-hope talk might have a paradoxical motivating effect and in a way conveys how bad it could be if we get anything south of a median scenario.
- yyyk 7y agoUnlikely. e.g. see the comments here on HN.