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If you wait until the damaging effects of the collapse are already substantially affecting us, it is waaay too late by then. For most of the time of the event,
by toss1 4y ago
If you wait until the damaging effects of the collapse are already substantially affecting us, it is waaay too late by then.
For most of the time of the event, you won't see any ill effects of a piano falling out of a building above your head, but if you wait to act until it starts crushing your hat, you are waaayy too late.
There are literal armies of scientists observing and working on this problem, and mountains of data, but you seem to think that your willful ignorance by reductive 'reasoning' is more relevant. There's far too much information to even begin to list here, but I'll suggest you start with the Xerces society [1] if you want to become informed.
[1] https://xerces.org/ https://xerces.org/
- rootusrootus 4y ago> but you seem to think that your willful ignorance by reductive 'reasoning' is more relevant Thanks for the personal attack. Instead of just bringing something more useful than windshield studies into the discussion. My complaint was that we keep hearing about windshields, when real data ought to exist. I'll take a look at your link, even if I'm inclined to suspect the bias of the source.
- toss1 4y agoNot meaning to be personal, but reductionist approaches are too often a way for brains to make bad assessments and decisions. Although reductionism has the benefit of being "efficient" and reducing cognitive load required to find a conclusion, it is often like the hapless drunk looking for his key under the streetlight instead of where he most likely lost it. Also unimpressive are arguments based on casual encounter with the issues that armies of scientists must have missed some One_Thing, and these arguments are often used in anti-science advocacy, so maybe I've got too little patience for that sort of thing. Here's some more data: first a famous German study showing 82% loss in nature preserves over just three decades [0], and then a meta-study of 166 studies (including the first one) [1]. Good luck and I'd suggest also looking into system dynamics, where even getting a clue of the complexity can lead you to avoid many pitfalls. [0] https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-s-insects-are-disappearing https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-s-insects-ar... [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-gives-more-complex-picture-insect-declines-180974749/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-gives-mo...