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this is the new crypto. I mean crypto was already the new climate. can you guys remember how it was in the 90s in western countries with the "ozone hole" or th

this is the new crypto. I mean crypto was already the new climate. can you guys remember how it was in the 90s in western countries with the "ozone hole" or the "ozone depletion" and how it evolved to the new "global warming". of course tech funding would grow as climate is something even more intagible than crypto or the economy. no one knows what will happen. al gore predicted we'd be already dead and it made him a millionnaire. n,b: im obviously not saying it is an hoax but that as it is intangible it is easy very to market the fear it creates and make a lot of money out of it. as capitalism taught us: why solve something that makes you richer

it_citizen 4y ago
You should check what happened with Ozone. It was a real problem and it ended up being solved thanks to useful regulations and an amazing show of global cooperation.
skocznymroczny 4y ago
Yeah, and now no matter what happens gets blamed on global warming... I mean climate changes (had to rename it because it's not warming as fast as they hoped for). Snow? Effect of climate changes. No snow? Effect of climate changes. No matter what, they'll blame it on climate change. And of course they implement lots of policies restricting movement, taxing and limiting airplanes... except for private jets which are always exempt from those policies.
- tyre 4y ago
  It was renamed from global warming because the changing climate involves a lot more than warming. You had senators bringing snowballs into congress to “prove” that global warming is fake.
  - mistrial9 4y ago
    it was one Senator, one time, and we shall never forget it here in California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8
crispinb 4y ago
Have you actually read any climate science, as opposed to political prattle about climate? Do you really think climate change is intangible? Serious, detailed, empirical work done by tens of thousands of scientists, converging across 10s of different fields of endeavour, in hundreds of research institutions (private, public, profit, non-profit), in dozens of nations from communist to capitalist (many of whom consider each other adversaries, some of whom are literally at war with each other). All these people are conspiring to work on intangibles for profit? It's a miracle (quite literally, and I mean literally in the English sense of the word - 'actually the case', rather than the Internet sense of 'not literally'). Re your daft reference to the 'ozone hole'. The underlying cause of the was fixed by the Montreal protocol. It didn't 'evolve' to climate change. They are scarcely related. Do you know anything about any of this at all? There are books! There are articles! There is sci-hub if you want to check sources. It's all in the open for you to explore if you have the will. Did y2k 'evolve' into React. What does all this nonsense even mean? > al gore predicted we'd be already dead Al Gore is a politician and businessman. What has he got to do with anything? Would you quote Michael Bloomberg if he said something silly about quantum physics as evidence? What on earth are you talking about. Honestly climate change brings out the ridiculous in so many people. It turns grey matter to gruel. No wonder ecosystems are collapsing all over our one and only common home.
- finikytou 4y ago
  my point is clearly not about the reality of climate change. earth changed climate a millions time this is a known fact. the intangibility is obvious its been decades and no one is able to tell what will happen exactly even next week or in one month. I don't understand your reaction. my point is about why vc would be interested about "climate tech" as being a new bitcoin. selling stuff and "tech" leveraging the fear mongering that politicians and marketers use to sell climate related goods. al gore was the flagship person talking about climate and got shilled by pretty much everyone for a decade. he got to do everything with the current politizing and marketing around climate change. your reaction is similar to a religious person feeling offended for someone opposing your views especially I wasn't even an opponent of climate change merely an opponent of the shills making money out of it

it_citizen 4y ago

You should check what happened with Ozone. It was a real problem and it ended up being solved thanks to useful regulations and an amazing show of global cooperation.

skocznymroczny 4y ago

Yeah, and now no matter what happens gets blamed on global warming... I mean climate changes (had to rename it because it's not warming as fast as they hoped for). Snow? Effect of climate changes. No snow? Effect of climate changes. No matter what, they'll blame it on climate change. And of course they implement lots of policies restricting movement, taxing and limiting airplanes... except for private jets which are always exempt from those policies.

tyre 4y ago
It was renamed from global warming because the changing climate involves a lot more than warming. You had senators bringing snowballs into congress to “prove” that global warming is fake.
- mistrial9 4y ago
  it was one Senator, one time, and we shall never forget it here in California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8

crispinb 4y ago

Have you actually read any climate science, as opposed to political prattle about climate? Do you really think climate change is intangible? Serious, detailed, empirical work done by tens of thousands of scientists, converging across 10s of different fields of endeavour, in hundreds of research institutions (private, public, profit, non-profit), in dozens of nations from communist to capitalist (many of whom consider each other adversaries, some of whom are literally at war with each other). All these people are conspiring to work on intangibles for profit? It's a miracle (quite literally, and I mean literally in the English sense of the word - 'actually the case', rather than the Internet sense of 'not literally'). Re your daft reference to the 'ozone hole'. The underlying cause of the was fixed by the Montreal protocol. It didn't 'evolve' to climate change. They are scarcely related. Do you know anything about any of this at all? There are books! There are articles! There is sci-hub if you want to check sources. It's all in the open for you to explore if you have the will. Did y2k 'evolve' into React. What does all this nonsense even mean? > al gore predicted we'd be already dead Al Gore is a politician and businessman. What has he got to do with anything? Would you quote Michael Bloomberg if he said something silly about quantum physics as evidence? What on earth are you talking about. Honestly climate change brings out the ridiculous in so many people. It turns grey matter to gruel. No wonder ecosystems are collapsing all over our one and only common home.

finikytou 4y ago
my point is clearly not about the reality of climate change. earth changed climate a millions time this is a known fact. the intangibility is obvious its been decades and no one is able to tell what will happen exactly even next week or in one month. I don't understand your reaction. my point is about why vc would be interested about "climate tech" as being a new bitcoin. selling stuff and "tech" leveraging the fear mongering that politicians and marketers use to sell climate related goods. al gore was the flagship person talking about climate and got shilled by pretty much everyone for a decade. he got to do everything with the current politizing and marketing around climate change. your reaction is similar to a religious person feeling offended for someone opposing your views especially I wasn't even an opponent of climate change merely an opponent of the shills making money out of it