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I agree that adaptation needs to be discussed. Ignoring it is delusional. However saying change isn’t happening isn’t fair. Many countries have built new energy

I agree that adaptation needs to be discussed. Ignoring it is delusional. However saying change isn’t happening isn’t fair. Many countries have built new energy infrastructure and investment in coal has become unattractive. It might not be enough to make climate activists happy, but we are definitely spending a lot of resources on this problem. Emissions targets are incentivising governments to reopen or reconsider nuclear. I don’t think carbon neutral by the end of the century is an unreasonable prediction.

jacooper 4y ago
I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change. Change is happening at the infrastructure level, which is the right thing to target. But demanding individual actions when they aren't the biggest emitters is just stupid and no body is changing their lifes for this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126507
- SyzygistSix 4y ago
  >I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change. They will if it becomes cool and fashionable, as well as making not changing more expensive. We made cigarette smoking expensive and in poor taste pretty quickly.
  - jacooper 4y ago
    Maybe, but I don't know how one woule spin things such as using a slower /more efficient computer or switching to a more inconvenient method of transport as cool
    - SyzygistSix 4y ago
      Keeping a phone for more than one year would be a start. Quality clothes over fast fashion. The end of seeing flying overseas and being a"foodie" as cool and recognizing it as the trashy behavior it is. Large gas-guzzling vehicles being recognized as trashy rather than cool. There are a ton of examples like this.
      - jacooper 4y ago
        > The end of seeing flying overseas and being a"foodie" as cool and recognizing it as the trashy behavior it is. Yeah no.. Loving to travel is trashy behavior? And how on earth is Loving food trashy behavior?

jacooper 4y ago

I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change. Change is happening at the infrastructure level, which is the right thing to target. But demanding individual actions when they aren't the biggest emitters is just stupid and no body is changing their lifes for this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126507

SyzygistSix 4y ago
>I meant that individuals won't change their lifes for climate change. They will if it becomes cool and fashionable, as well as making not changing more expensive. We made cigarette smoking expensive and in poor taste pretty quickly.
- jacooper 4y ago
  Maybe, but I don't know how one woule spin things such as using a slower /more efficient computer or switching to a more inconvenient method of transport as cool
  - SyzygistSix 4y ago
    Keeping a phone for more than one year would be a start. Quality clothes over fast fashion. The end of seeing flying overseas and being a"foodie" as cool and recognizing it as the trashy behavior it is. Large gas-guzzling vehicles being recognized as trashy rather than cool. There are a ton of examples like this.
    - jacooper 4y ago
      > The end of seeing flying overseas and being a"foodie" as cool and recognizing it as the trashy behavior it is. Yeah no.. Loving to travel is trashy behavior? And how on earth is Loving food trashy behavior?