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If I squint hard enough I can find a way to agree with you. I personally believe that we’re on the edge of a change in climate that will cause huge and potentia
by remarkEon 7y ago
If I squint hard enough I can find a way to agree with you. I personally believe that we’re on the edge of a change in climate that will cause huge and potentially devastating problems.
But I also think that most of the people that would agree with that statement don’t actually act like they agree with it. If you honestly think we have “12 years left” (as a certain congresswoman has said) you would be doing things like stocking arms, getting ready to grow your own vegetables and husband livestock, figuring out how barter economies would work in this apocalypse that is, allegedly, around the corner.
Of course none of them are doing this.
- ben_w 7y agoThe “12 years” thing: AFAIK, that’s “12 years to get moving, given how much political inertia we know we’ve got”, not “12 years to actually fix everything”.
- ncmncm 7y ago"Twelve years" is like every idiot cliffhanger movie, where the bomb is defused with two seconds to spare, and everything is suddenly fine again. Things will get continuously worse, and continue worsening long after the twelve years, even if we manage to do enough by then for civilization not to collapse. There is little point in setting up to grow vegetables when civilization collapses and roving bands of armed thugs raid anyone who seems to have anything they want. We will either avert disaster together, as a global society, or not at all. Growing vegetables is not a response. Do it anyway, if you like, just don't fool yourself that it improves your or anybody's chances.