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I think a large chunk are people that know it's true, but think that humans can "out-build it" or "out-engineer it"... reality is that nobody understands how mu
by randomopining 6y ago
I think a large chunk are people that know it's true, but think that humans can "out-build it" or "out-engineer it"... reality is that nobody understands how much our natural environment still impacts us.
You sit on your chair in a city, working on your dual 4k screens, getting a fresh burrito delivered in 20 mins, and it seems like humans can only get more advanced. But few think about the fragile supply chains that allowed all that to happen.
- minikites 6y ago>But few think about the fragile supply chains that allowed all that to happen. I think this is an excellent point. One can draw a clear parallel to the Bronze Age Collapse and there's no reason we couldn't have a modern version today. We've eliminated all of the "slack" in our global systems and organizations in the endless pursuit for profits above all and our systems are now not resilient enough to handle a major problem. Imagine what will happen when our changing climate puts even more of a strain on our systems, both economic (e.g. the subject of the article) and political. Xenophobic nations are not going to get more tolerant when global conditions get worse.
- whimsicalism 6y ago> I think a large chunk are people that know it's true, but think that humans can "out-build it" or "out-engineer it" Yeah, but a lot of those people held the "climate denial" view like 1 decade ago. This is just the natural evolution of the view as it becomes more and more undeniable.
- randomopining 6y agoYeah good point, exactly. Now that the facts are so obvious, they are forced to say... "Well China isn't following through! And we can adapt anyway!!" which is obviously naive.