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We’re not yet ready for what’s already happened
- philips 5y agothe only costs that count are the lost profits and jobs in unsustainable industries, the only fairness is that those who don’t want to change shouldn’t have to. The deserving are coal miners, not construction workers sent home during heat waves; gas station owners, but not shellfish farmers; auto dealership and gas stove manufacturers, but not the mountain towns whose whole economies depend on skiers showing up in the winter, staring at bare rock and warm days in December. This was interesting framing of job losses. I wonder if there is analysis of the short term economic loses of these changing weather patterns.
- gmuslera 5y agoEven if he names mostly climate change, the case is mostly on change and unpredictability. There are "good" or somewhat intended change caused by new technological developments and discoveries. Something new is created (cars, planes, electricity, computers, internet, and so on) and entire industries become obsolete. But is a change for good as it means the opening of new opportunities. But the core of why is bad the climate change is one of our firsts uses of predictability: agriculture. You plant your seeds today and know that some months later you will get your crops. Bad things happened through all history when that turned not to be true. If climate change and extreme weather turns the still infrequent exception lost crops into a new normal, bad things will happen again, and at a bigger scale now. Maybe some development will happen to protect at scale our main source of food and at least that become predictable again. But it must work in the long term.
- tomjen3 5y agoI wish people writing long from would take the opportunity to actually explain why, rather than just keep repeating assertions of "this means a discontinuous change".