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Can you provide the sources for these claims? Please consider this a friendly suggestion to help improve the persuasiveness of your comment. The above claims
by xpe 7y ago
Can you provide the sources for these claims?
Please consider this a friendly suggestion to help improve the persuasiveness of your comment.
The above claims are non-obvious, to say the least. Many appear to be exaggerations.
Here on HN, it is my experience that people seek out useful discussion. It may be based on personal experiences and/or credible sources. If you have sources, share them.
- cranekam 7y agoDavid Wallace-Well's "The Uninhabitable Earth" covers some of these points, though they're exaggerated here (don't get me wrong: the unexaggerated versions in the book are still fucking terrifying). Guardian review of said book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/27/the-uninhabitable-earth-review-david-wallace-wells https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/27/the-uninhabita... I like the last paragraph: "You could call [the book] alarmist, and you would not be wrong. (In the closing pages, Wallace-Wells himself accepts the charge as “fair enough, because I am alarmed”.) But to read The Uninhabitable Earth – or to consider in any serious way the scale of the crisis we face – is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism. To fail to be alarmed is to fail to think about the problem, and to fail to think about the problem is to relinquish all hope of its solution."
- 29athrowaway 7y agoSource: wait 50 years. The evidence is overwhelming, worldwide. Pick any source you want at this point.
- xpe 7y agoI invite you to reflect on what you wrote. Please offer a substantive response.