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There are mountains of people doing what you do and complaining about alarmism and fear mongering and chiding people for apocalyptic predictions any time this s
by smolder 3y ago
There are mountains of people doing what you do and complaining about alarmism and fear mongering and chiding people for apocalyptic predictions any time this subject comes up. I think that's worse than unhelpful, and is a disservice to everyone that lives after us. People are sounding the alarms and making dire predictions because there is so far 0 indication that as a global society we can cooperate well enough to prevent serious and irreparable harm to Earth's ecosystems and a great deal of consequent human suffering. We just barely, as a species, managed to contain ourselves well enough to not blow up in a nuclear light show. Peace is a fragile stalemate, not a lack of desire to destroy each other. If you ask me, there's no hope of an adequate change of inertia to prevent unprecedented human suffering stemming from AGW, and that's in large part because people would rather ignore it and stay comfortable. Toning down the alarmism does nothing to fix that.
- tacker2000 3y agoSo what do you suggest? Be scared everyday of the impending doom that awaits us inevitably (or maybe not in the end)? Is that a good way to live life?
- Epa095 3y agoYou can for example figure out how you can help the situation? Sticking your head in the sand is probably not the most helpful thing you can do. Even if YOU can't stop global warming (none of us can alone), you can atleast help spread willingness to action by telling the sober truth. Not exaggerate, but also not trivialise it.
- thworp 3y agoOn the flip side if we overreact and destroy our food and logistics systems over it the suffering will be worse than climate change. If the right people gain power I could see them doing something totally misguided like banning fertilizer or destroying electricity grids.