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Is your point that sometimes people get predictions wrong?
by jf22 4y ago
Is your point that sometimes people get predictions wrong?
- prottog 4y agoNot the GP, but sure, if the people making those wrong predictions are advocating for policy changes that will impoverish so many people.
- DoctorOW 4y agoClimate change is already impoverishing people.
- prottog 4y agoNot as many as cheap energy from fossil fuels are lifting the global poor out of poverty.
- DoctorOW 4y agoFossil field are expensive relative to most renewable sources as well as nuclear. This was before the recent price manipulation by oil companies, which have grown price disparity.
- antisthenes 4y agoWhat happens when all the fossil fuels run out and stop lifting people out of poverty?
- jf22 4y agoHow accurate do people have to be in their predictions to advocate for policy change?
- charbonneau 4y ago[dead]
- prottog 4y agoIf said policy change is a radical departure from status quo that allowed humanity to flourish since the start of the Industrial Revolution, then quite accurate indeed. People can't just bandy about phrases like "abolish fossil fuels" without justifying it with strong evidence. Most climate advocacy, I find, focuses too much on the doom and gloom of what will happen if we continue down our present path, and not enough on the number of lives that have been and will continue to be enriched by easily and cheaply accessible energy from fossil fuels. I am aware of the downsides and by no means think we should pollute for the sake of polluting, but I remain unconvinced by the current alternatives proposed by the overall climate movement.