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What about the climate crisis halting or slowing down technological progress?
by uxcolumbo 6y ago
What about the climate crisis halting or slowing down technological progress?
- bob33212 6y agoClimate change is not a big deal as far as innovation goes. It is an enormous disaster for specific cities though
- ncmncm 6y agoOnly if civilization doesn't collapse. But there is no reason to expect better. All the signs point there. Global climate disruption destroys crop yields in tropical and subtropical places, creating political instability. Millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of refugees flee toward higher latitudes. Nations at higher latitudes elect fascists to repel them. Fascists start wars, wars disrupt trade, economies collapse, nuclear weapons come out, boom. It would be nice to be wrong about this, but it has all started already. 70M+ Americans voted for fascism. Brazil, Turkey, Hungary, India already got it. Germany, France, UK, Italy, Poland threaten. China and Russia fell long ago. Europe is already strained by the first few million refugees. Sending the hundreds of millions of refugees on to Siberia and the Yukon could work, in principle.
- loopz 6y agoClimate instability would unlock changes that one by one cause feedback to worsen the situation irreversibly. The bio diversity that prevents this, we actively destroy every day.
- sangnoir 6y agoOr if we find out that micro-plastics lead to a marked increased cancer rates, resulting in a precipitous drop in life expectancy.