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Would you like to be driving the car when it veers off the road, or in the passenger seat. Passively waiting for the disruption of climate change to ravage norm
by Crye 6y ago
Would you like to be driving the car when it veers off the road, or in the passenger seat. Passively waiting for the disruption of climate change to ravage normalcy, is probably going to be worst then trying to dealing with it aggressively. The equity of disruption will be extreme in the passive case.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI don't agree with the intuition. Even in the worst projections, climate change will be somewhat gradual; we won't wake up one day to find all the corn in Iowa is dead. The day we expropriate the factories, as the author insists we must, will be pretty extreme.
- augustt 6y agoIf only there were a current event that illustrates the danger of this line of thinking when it comes to things that can spiral out of control exponentially...
- bhupy 6y agoWhat? The two aren't related. You can't just take one event that demonstrably exhibits exponential-growth characteristics (via the R0) and another event that demonstrably doesn't, and then declare them to have the same growth characteristics just because they're vaguely similar in level-of-catastrophe.
- js8 6y ago> another event that demonstrably doesn't I would like to see a demonstration that ecological collapse cannot happen exponentially in response to a linear change in the environment. I am no ecologist, but I don't believe it.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoEven the worst case projections don't propose that the average temperature will change by more than current day-to-day variability. That doesn't mean it's okay, it'll cause a lot of problems if every day is 4 degrees hotter, but a spiral out of control won't happen.