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We also conveniently forget the many disasters averted, like Y2K, while we hand-wring about the latest bad news and dire predictions.

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• DangitBobby 5y ago
  The reaction to Climate Change seems to be more along the lines of "pretend it doesn't exist" or "I'd rather die than change my lifestyle" than "let's hire a bunch of software developers to make sure this crisis doesn't end society as we know it".
  • DoreenMichele 5y ago
    You are the 2nd person to dismiss my Y2K example as irrelevant. The other one was deleted before I could reply. Look up the Kuwaiti oil fires. They were supposed to burn for years and cause a global environmental disaster. We put them out in under a year and it has been essentially forgotten.
    • DangitBobby 5y ago
      Okay, well we aren't putting out the metaphorical fire is my point. I wasn't trying to say Y2K isn't relevant, I'm just trying to say we understood what had to be done and did it. You can point to examples of disaster being averted, but that has no impact on the reality of Climate Change and our inaction towards it. Just because everything has turned out fine in the past doesn't mean it will this time, especially not how things are going now.