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15 years ago a friend in Canada planted many fruit trees that were known not to be able to handle the winters in that part of the country. Now he enjoys a ton
by grecy 5y ago
15 years ago a friend in Canada planted many fruit trees that were known not to be able to handle the winters in that part of the country.
Now he enjoys a ton of fruit you "can't grow" in that part of Canada.
- option 5y agowe should adapt to climate change and use it to our advantage. This does not conflict with trying to slow it.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago> This does not conflict with trying to slow it. It can, though, so we need to be super careful. It's basic human social dynamics: once someone starts making money from mitigating a problem, they become invested in perpetuating (or even worsening) the problem. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when your lemonade stand starts raking in serious cash, you suddenly want to make sure everyone is being given lemons, so you can buy them up and sell even more lemonade.
- option 5y agothis can be said about pretty much everything
- meheleventyone 5y agoYes but perverse incentives like this are very often neglected in peoples happy path analysis.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoYes. Doesn't make it any less true. On the contrary, realizing this lets one understand many peculiarities of the civilization we live in.
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- chalst 5y agoI partly agree, but the "super" in "super careful" is going too far. It is OK to take risks when trying to rescue people from a burning building.
- spoonjim 5y agoDoes he protect the trees in winter?
- grecy 5y agono, it doesn't get cold enough to hurt them anymore
- yellow_lead 5y agoThat's pretty sad - that the climate has changed that much. I am glad he is enjoying them, I wish it were on better terms.
- BoHerfIIIJrEsq 5y agoWell, hang on. Which was the correct climate? At various times, the planet has apparently completely encased itself in ice and then thawed itself out. According to the climate historian Scotese, the average temperature has varied between 10C and 25C for two billion years. "Recently" it's been about as cold as it ever gets. Is it actually sad that it's warming up? What was it supposed to do, stay cold forever or get even colder? http://scotese.com/climate.htm http://scotese.com/climate.htm
- hack-news 5y agoThe "correct" climate is one that isn't changing so fast that we'll need to globally rethink the logistics of food production. It's one that does not include being in the middle of an extinction event.
- germandiago 5y agoThere have been fatalist predictions since ever and about so many topics. In my own country, Spain, you could find an article about Maldives shrunk in 2010 and with no human-consumable water in 1992, that would make 200,000 people abandon the islands. It never happened. The article from 1988. Also about a lack of food and a hunger in 1975. Syberian weather for 2000 in 1970 article for UK... And many I am not going to mention here since the 60s as far as I researched. It looks like we are approaching a disaster and the end of the world continuously. It could be a fact that climate is changing. And also that we contribute to it in some known ways. What I am not convinced about at all if most of this phenomenon is human-induced. If it is not we will set heavy restrictions for no gain, maybe even impoverishing people. Who will be responsible for the consequences? Also, we can keep adapting, as we always did if the climate is changing. I do not see the point in taking every piece of news from climate change like the end of thw world: we will have to keep adapting. But no fatalisms, after all, media has a TERRIBLE track in publishing bogus predictions or incorrect and half-baked.