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Imagine that a meteor is heading toward the Earth, and there's a 50% chance that it will hit us and wipe out all life, but we won't know whether it will for sur
by resoluteteeth 7y ago
Imagine that a meteor is heading toward the Earth, and there's a 50% chance that it will hit us and wipe out all life, but we won't know whether it will for sure until later and if we want to be able to stop the meteor in the case where it will we need to start preparing now at immense cost.
In this scenario, if you say "we're not 100% sure it's going to hit the Earth so we shouldn't prepare until we know for certain" does that make you "unconvinced"? Or does it make you a "denier"?
- perl4ever 7y agoSo are you actually concerned about CO2 driven climate change or asteroid strikes? What about all the other things that could potentially eliminate civilization? Something something Pascal's wager... People constantly talk about "externalities", which implicitly means the downside of using fossil fuels isn't infinite. Equivocating between "infinite" and "actually a rather small amount on a global scale" makes anyone paying attention tune out. You've got to consistently fake sincerity to influence people. Or I used to think so.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoCO2 driven climate change isn’t going to wipe us out or do anything particularly exciting. Micro plastics are a more plausible doomsday eco-disaster.