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When you start going down the road of affected things, and then affected-affected things, and then affected-affected-affected things, you leave your case more v
by setr 7y ago
When you start going down the road of affected things, and then affected-affected things, and then affected-affected-affected things, you leave your case more vulnerable to alternative explanations (and thus solutions) with each step along the way.
Climate change -> population migration -> fascism -> nuclear war is quite a severe set of steps, and if this is truly the scenario we're worried about, then climate change is probably the most difficult step to correct. We'd likely have a much easier time trying to control migration or fascism or nuclear war. And there's a decent chance something will naturally interfere with these set of steps such that it doesn't occur.
Additionally, it seems to me that nuclear war can derive from a number of different sequences, and climate change is probably not the most immediate one.
- ncmncm 7y agoI.e., nothing causes anything, doing anything has no effect. The song is old.
- setr 7y agoOr rather, history is not a simple straight line for you to trace out and predict as your political needs require. We can play the same game with other sequences as well, and its still not that convincing Video games -> de-sympathizing -> murderers -> high crime rate Poor -> Uneducated -> Republican -> Trump religious -> muslim -> jihadi religious -> anti-science -> ludite -> Unabomber(s) DnD -> Anti-Christian -> Anti-good -> satanists Just because you drew a path doesn't make it convincing. I.e., Something could cause something, which could cause other things, so they definitely do cause it, so stopping something stops everything. The song is old.
- swsieber 7y agoThat's quite the leap. They were saying to attack a different part of the chain, not that the chain doesn't exist.