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We've been hearing about tipping points and irreversible consequences for 30 years now. So wake me up when it happens or you bring up scientifically backed solu
by papermachete 7y ago
We've been hearing about tipping points and irreversible consequences for 30 years now. So wake me up when it happens or you bring up scientifically backed solutions. Until then, I'll just watch 2012 every christmas.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago30 years ago the consequences were 30 years further away. We now only have a decade to act.
- papermachete 7y agoSorry, who's 'we'?
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoHumans who are alive.
- papermachete 7y agoHow about humans who are in charge or deal the most damage.
- javajosh 7y agoIt's true that some scientists have made very dour (and wrong) predictions about, for example, over population. But no-one argues the fact that the average global temp has increased dramatically, compared to the previous thousands of years, in the last 100 years. That's lightening fast on a geologic scale, but still pretty slow on a human scale. My point is: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some people overstated the case doesn't mean it's all bunk.
- boyadjian 7y agoOver population is now a reality, you should be blind for not seeing it.
- ben_w 7y agoVarious solutions have been known about for more than 30 years. Back then, we could’ve done it with nuclear reactors — those can still help, but these days we’ve also got solar, wind, and batteries so cheap that they’re largely displacing coal in latitudes north of the entire contiguous USA, and starting to undercut oil and natural gas.