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Sure, but the urge of avoiding self-imposed extinction can change the political agenda and the regulations. I think we saw that for nuclear warheads (compare no
by gattilorenz 3y ago
Sure, but the urge of avoiding self-imposed extinction can change the political agenda and the regulations. I think we saw that for nuclear warheads (compare now vs the 60s), and (in the wrong sense) for nuclear power too. We’re sort of seeing it in the EU for AI right now!
Of course the problem is that those feel like problems that could kill you or your kids, while climate change doesn’t. But again, that’s also connected to message formulation and correctly communicating the feeling of urgency…
- jacquesm 3y agoThat depends on who you talk to. But, to make it simple: if COVID19, which arguably was a far smaller problem than climate change (even though it isn't gone and never will be gone), I think you can see that the degree of lack of global policy and unity while dealing with that is any precursor of what our approach to climate change is (and has been so far) that we're royally fucked. You can't solve global problems with local policies, especially not if those local policies undo each others' effects.