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This is a stereotypical first world problem. I think calling attention to it risks trivializing the serious effects of climate change.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
This is a stereotypical first world problem. I think calling attention to it risks trivializing the serious effects of climate change.
- reimertz 7y agoI disagree. For some, this might be the proof that is needed to make them realize something is wrong.
- gourabmi 7y agoIn the eyes of apocalypse, we are all the same.
- sgift 7y agoBecause people loosing their livelihood is a 'first world problem' and not one of a series of important problems? Or because it's in Germany and not somewhere more 'relevant'? I try to find a charitable reading of your post, but so far I've failed.
- hutzlibu 7y agoWell, loosing your job, or preferred wine, is a different kind of problem, than loosing your island. Thats what he or she meant.
- jellicle 7y agoUnfortunately all the people who are going to make the decisions about whether the world burns are first-world people, and their problems are the only ones that they care about.
- gpm 7y agoCrops failing is a first world problem? I think you have it backwards.
- gourabmi 7y agoPlease explain the reason why you think they have it backwards. Does the "first world" survive on not-crops?
- gpm 7y agoThe first world, for as long as that has been a term, has had more than sufficient supplies of food. Unlike many other parts of the world in the same period of time.
- gourabmi 7y agoI think there are couple of assumptions that I want to point out. Having more than sufficient supply of food translates to having reliable supply chain of food. With increased globalization, supply chains have become more specialized. This has allowed us to have access to a wide variety of goods and services at competitive prices. But it has come at the cost of supplier dependence. As we are currently experiencing in the Covid-19 outbreak, global supply chains are sensitive to disruptions from global events. Hence, this is a global issue. Last year, minor variations in supply of Avocados had people talking in the Bay Area. On this very page, we are talking about effects of climate change on wine production. A population which is used to a reliable and consistent supply of goods is more susceptible to variation in the same. Hence, I think crop failures are very much a first world problem too.