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> Only social inertia slows it. Distraction adds to inertia. I don't buy the armchair social psychology here. People think they are much, much better at predic
by civilized 4y ago
> Only social inertia slows it. Distraction adds to inertia.
I don't buy the armchair social psychology here. People think they are much, much better at predicting how the population will react to things than they actually are. This led to a lot of terrible decisions during the pandemic, like telling people masks don't work on the baseless folk theory that wearing masks would cause people to take more risks. That theory, by the way, was very similar to the one you're advancing with such certitude.
We are moving too slowly to avert potentially catastrophic climate change. The armchair theory that, somehow, not buying more time with geoengineering will somehow... I don't know, somehow cause people to be more focused and move faster?... is barely believable even as a folk theory, but on top of that, is very clearly not coming to pass. Look around at what's happening in the world.
We need to get real.
- ncmncm 4y agoGetting real means displacing CO2 production. Anything that fails to displace CO2 production is, at best, wankage. Anything that steals capital from displacing CO2 production is much worse.
- civilized 4y agoYou're just layering folk theory upon folk theory with baseless, utter confidence. This is not the sort of problem we can just bluff our way through with gut feelings. We need to consider the options in a comprehensive, systematic, thoughtful, scientific fashion.
- ncmncm 4y agoA comprehensive, systematic, thoughtful, scientific fashion that displaces CO2-emitting processes. Fail to displace CO2 emission, and it is all just so much hot air.
- civilized 4y agoRepeated baseless assertion is an irresponsible way to deal with a complex global crisis. The planet is not a morality play where we simply demand that people be virtuous and things work out. We have to actually think things through and come up with a realistic plan considering the realities on the ground and human nature.
- worik 4y ago> Repeated baseless assertion is an irresponsible way to deal with a complex global crisis. Yes. Listen to yourself. We need to stop pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. That will take a huge effort. Distracting from that effort makes things worse.
- civilized 4y ago> Distracting from that effort makes things worse. I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale. Civilizations are always doing tons of different things. Most of those things aren't competing with one another for people or resources. They're just happening simultaneously. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. And don't you want to know how difficult this will be before immediately shutting it down? Isn't that a critical consideration?
- worik 4y ago> I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale. Then you are not paying attention. We need to shut these liars down and stop thinking that we can make huge changes to complex systems that we do not understand and have predictable results, let alone good results
- civilized 4y agoHow do you leap to "these liars"? What gives you the epistemic right to dismiss a proposal not on its scientific merits, but on some assumption about the certain moral evil of the people who said it?