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COVID lockdowns didn't put a dent in climate change and caused immense suffering - and they were pretty tame for a "lockdown". We'd have to make suffering much,
by nsxwolf 4y ago
COVID lockdowns didn't put a dent in climate change and caused immense suffering - and they were pretty tame for a "lockdown". We'd have to make suffering much, much worse, and permanent, to have any effect whatsoever.
This will never happen. Until there's an energy source that's more abundant than fossil fuels at the same or lower cost, this is just how it is going to be. Better to worry about how to adapt.
- myth_drannon 4y agoWFH reduced the number of vehicles on the road and the traffic is still well below pre-Covid level.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoAre personal vehicles are significant chunk of pollution? At any rate, lockdowns were a good glimpse of how much nicer things are without all the cars around.
- asdff 4y agoIt improved local air quality significantly when cars were no longer on the road: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/air-quality-a-year-after-covid-lockdowns https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/air-quality-a-year-after-...
- _jal 4y ago> This will never happen . [...] Better to worry about how to adapt. In ecology, there's talk of population boom/bust cycles that result from biome variation, like a predator going away. This results in more members of a given species than can be supported by the rest of the biome. Then comes the bust. In human terms, adapting is probably mostly about hoping the right warlord owns you.
- datadata 4y agoArguably nuclear is more abundant and lower cost.
- jshen 4y agoThis is nonsense. We can make a huge dent without affecting lifestyles much at all, but people really get angry when you point this out. 1) eat significantly less meat 2) live in denser urban settings rather than suburbs.