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But the catastrophising of climate change is also harmful, and results in people proposing 'solutions' that seem likely to bring about an even faster collapse o
by bluescrn 4y ago
But the catastrophising of climate change is also harmful, and results in people proposing 'solutions' that seem likely to bring about an even faster collapse of civilisation.
One 2019 UK report (https://www.icax.co.uk/pdf/Absolute_Zero_Report.pdf https://www.icax.co.uk/pdf/Absolute_Zero_Report.pdf) proposes a timeline that's been circulating on Twitter, involving the closure of all airports and shutting down all international shipping by 2050, while pricing 40% of traffic off the roads and banning beef+lamb. That (along with many more less-drastic but still significant restrictions) is what it would take to reach 'net zero' with current technology.
And that was written in 2019, when people were generally a lot more reasonable than they are in the post-Covid world.
(Do they even realise what they're proposing by 'no international shipping'... Amongst many other things, that means zero microchips for the UK, let alone complete technology products such as phones, TVs, or EVs)
Meanwhile in the real world (here in the UK), we've got a massive cost-of-living crisis, a collapsing healthcare system, a disaster of a property market, and a rising population that we're failing to build infrastructure to cope with. We have a a terribly incompetent government, and an opposition that seems no better. And we're living with the threat of WW3, the tail end of the pandemic, and now a banking crisis too.
- wolverine876 4y ago> catastrophising of climate change is also harmful What if it is a catastrophe? Should we pretend otherwise? The word 'catastrophize' implies that the speaker is creating the catastrophe. Climate change sure seems like one to me, whether anyone says it or not.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoEven a glance at your own link shows you are misinterpreting it. > We currently have no non-emitting freight ships, so there is an urgent need for exploration of means to electrify ship power It seems like you are the one "catastrophising".