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Imagine if people would get as excited about actual problems like global warming and the unfolding mass extinction as they do about a new mild flu.
by yogthos 7y ago
Imagine if people would get as excited about actual problems like global warming and the unfolding mass extinction as they do about a new mild flu.
- swader999 7y agoExponential vs logistic growth. This is far more of a threat.
- yogthos 7y agoThis virus is not a threat to long term survival of the human species by any stretch of imagination. Meanwhile the collapse of our biosphere is an existential threat. What's more, we know that we have a very short window to make any meaningful changes to prevent the worst outcomes including our extinction. Yet, we're still completely reliant on fossil fuels, and the industry is actually being subsidized right now. Thinking that this is more of a threat because it's happening now as opposed to a few decades in the future is sheer idiocy.
- dharma1 7y agoTimescale, and immediacy of the threat. Humans are not good at long timescale thinking. BTW I don't think these things need to be mutually exclusive. We should take action against all kinds of threats
- yogthos 7y agoObviously we should take action against all kinds of threats. My point is that the reaction to this virus is completely disproportional to the level of the threat. Meanwhile, lack of reaction to an actual existential threat we're facing in the near future is utterly terrifying.