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What information is that based off of? How do we know we won't be able to use technology (whatever that means in this case) to solve it?

pier25 7y ago
Difficult to say since we don't even know what technology we'll discover in 10 years from now. If you look at the wildfires in Russia from 2010 which helped trigger the Arab revolutions in 2011 it should give you an idea. That occurred 10 years ago when we weren't even at +1C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in_the_Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in... Also: > Rockström [director of the Potsdam institute] doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or maybe even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-...
- MrsPeaches 7y ago
  > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in.... Just FYI that all the links in this are dead apart from one that links to a youtube channel called "Russia Good" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFHWLAMQ2hWPc7fbssfSUg/about https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFHWLAMQ2hWPc7fbssfSUg/abo... Any better sources on this?
  - chillax 7y ago
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-and-rising-food-prices-heightened-arab-spring/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-an...
netsharc 7y ago
Gotta love this "some yet-existing technology will solve all our problems!" mindset.. /s Might as well have faith in Jesus at this point, if you're just going to pray to non-existant future tech. E.g. I think a lot people have prayed for a solution to solve problems like aging, but several millennia of civilization, and we're still aging and dying.
lunias 7y ago
I dunno if "technology [will] solve it"... We'll have droughts, famine, and 16k 8g streaming VR porn. We already have the capability to solve it (we created it), it's just not profitable enough to start trying yet. Or at least it will be unfathomably more profitable when people are faced with life or death situations.

pier25 7y ago

Difficult to say since we don't even know what technology we'll discover in 10 years from now. If you look at the wildfires in Russia from 2010 which helped trigger the Arab revolutions in 2011 it should give you an idea. That occurred 10 years ago when we weren't even at +1C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in_the_Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in... Also: > Rockström [director of the Potsdam institute] doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or maybe even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-...

MrsPeaches 7y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires#Role_in.... Just FYI that all the links in this are dead apart from one that links to a youtube channel called "Russia Good" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFHWLAMQ2hWPc7fbssfSUg/about https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzFHWLAMQ2hWPc7fbssfSUg/abo... Any better sources on this?
- chillax 7y ago
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-and-rising-food-prices-heightened-arab-spring/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-an...

netsharc 7y ago

Gotta love this "some yet-existing technology will solve all our problems!" mindset.. /s Might as well have faith in Jesus at this point, if you're just going to pray to non-existant future tech. E.g. I think a lot people have prayed for a solution to solve problems like aging, but several millennia of civilization, and we're still aging and dying.

lunias 7y ago

I dunno if "technology [will] solve it"... We'll have droughts, famine, and 16k 8g streaming VR porn. We already have the capability to solve it (we created it), it's just not profitable enough to start trying yet. Or at least it will be unfathomably more profitable when people are faced with life or death situations.