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Someone 100 years ago: "You can stop reading right there. We do not have the ability to breed corn with the ears the size of a man's forearm." Yet here we are:

by m0zg 7y ago

Someone 100 years ago: "You can stop reading right there. We do not have the ability to breed corn with the ears the size of a man's forearm." Yet here we are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKlvxnspXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKlvxnspXs

Gibbon1 7y ago
We don't have a 100 years anymore.
- m0zg 7y ago
  None of us individually do, but I'm pretty sure there will still be 7+ billion people on this planet in year 2120. Irrespective of 2 degree rise in temperature or lack thereof.
  - asveikau 7y ago
    I'm not an expert, but I think the sea level rise is going to be quite crappy in another 30 years or so. Sounds plausible that it could lead to people being displaced and pricey waterfront properties and adjacent losing a lot of value.
  - ncmncm 7y ago
    A hundred years might enough to bring the population back up after civilization collapses. Collapse will put a damper on CO2 release, and the pulse of reforestation of formerly occupied areas would absorb a lot of the CO2 overburden. Anyway that's the optimistic view.
- akvadrako 7y ago
  I think one of the best things the alarmists do is say we only have ten years left. When those predictions are proven wrong again and again eventually people will notice the pattern.
  - briantakita 7y ago
    People have been predicting the end of the world based on inference from their faith in a priori positions for a long time...
  - Gibbon1 7y ago
    > ten years Your words not mine. Problem is you guys thinks real technology moves as fast as you guys reinvent web frameworks. It doesn't. Developing real technology and rolling it out takes decades.
    - m0zg 7y ago
      It cuts both ways. Problem is you guys think that technology is not going to move at all. It will.
  - asdkjh345 7y ago
    People don't pay attention long enough. We have 20 solid years of non-stop doomsday predictions, all of which were wrong. Nobody pays any attention to this, they just go right on believing all the new baseless doomsday predictions. Meanwhile actual looming disasters are ignored.
    - Gibbon1 7y ago
      The return on energy investment for oil dropped from 20:1 to 12:1 in 15 years. What you're arguing for is normalization of deviance.
      - asdkjh345 7y ago
        I don't understand what your statement has to do with my post, or what your conclusion has to do with that statement.
  - keanzu 7y ago
    It's 12 years apparently https://conservativehardliner.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2019-03/aoc_gore-min.jpeg https://conservativehardliner.com/sites/default/files/styles...

by m0zg 7y ago

Gibbon1 7y ago

We don't have a 100 years anymore.

m0zg 7y ago
None of us individually do, but I'm pretty sure there will still be 7+ billion people on this planet in year 2120. Irrespective of 2 degree rise in temperature or lack thereof.
- asveikau 7y ago
  I'm not an expert, but I think the sea level rise is going to be quite crappy in another 30 years or so. Sounds plausible that it could lead to people being displaced and pricey waterfront properties and adjacent losing a lot of value.
- ncmncm 7y ago
  A hundred years might enough to bring the population back up after civilization collapses. Collapse will put a damper on CO2 release, and the pulse of reforestation of formerly occupied areas would absorb a lot of the CO2 overburden. Anyway that's the optimistic view.
akvadrako 7y ago
I think one of the best things the alarmists do is say we only have ten years left. When those predictions are proven wrong again and again eventually people will notice the pattern.
- briantakita 7y ago
  People have been predicting the end of the world based on inference from their faith in a priori positions for a long time...
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  > ten years Your words not mine. Problem is you guys thinks real technology moves as fast as you guys reinvent web frameworks. It doesn't. Developing real technology and rolling it out takes decades.
  - m0zg 7y ago
    It cuts both ways. Problem is you guys think that technology is not going to move at all. It will.
- asdkjh345 7y ago
  People don't pay attention long enough. We have 20 solid years of non-stop doomsday predictions, all of which were wrong. Nobody pays any attention to this, they just go right on believing all the new baseless doomsday predictions. Meanwhile actual looming disasters are ignored.
  - Gibbon1 7y ago
    The return on energy investment for oil dropped from 20:1 to 12:1 in 15 years. What you're arguing for is normalization of deviance.
    - asdkjh345 7y ago
      I don't understand what your statement has to do with my post, or what your conclusion has to do with that statement.
- keanzu 7y ago
  It's 12 years apparently https://conservativehardliner.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2019-03/aoc_gore-min.jpeg https://conservativehardliner.com/sites/default/files/styles...