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“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” -- Helen Keller My incomplete BS is in Environmental Studies. I have trouble believi
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.” -- Helen Keller
My incomplete BS is in Environmental Studies.
I have trouble believing we are doomed to failure and there is no point in trying. If you don't bother to try, that sounds like self-fulfilling prophecy to me, not proof that we couldn't have accomplished something if we had tried.
- alexose 5y agoFor sure! For the record, I do think there's a path to success here (see my prior comments), but it's fairly top-down in its approach. Still, everyone has a role to play in demanding that their governments take immediate action. Some mitigation is absolutely necessary. But mitigation alone can't prepare us for 3°C. Billions of people will die.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoTop down is part of how we created this monster. Seems unlikely to be the solution. "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers." Edit: Please see some old comment by me. I probably need to leave this discussion for various reasons. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19843507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19843507