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> The problem with both of those things is all the dead people. Right. The consequences of communism or totalitarianism are well known and have recent preceden

> The problem with both of those things is all the dead people. Right. The consequences of communism or totalitarianism are well known and have recent precedents for how bad they will be. Climate change is an unknown, but throwing ourselves into the hands of a dictatorship (and that's what a lot of people are advocating, we're already seeing dictatorial rules in the name of climate) we know what will happen. The alternative is a technological solution. People need to stop using climate change to push a political agenda (which is literally all that's done) and get behind building nuclear and carbon capture.

mistermann 3y ago
> The consequences of communism or totalitarianism are well known and have recent precedents for how bad they will be. Climate change is an unknown, but throwing ourselves into the hands of a dictatorship (and that's what a lot of people are advocating, we're already seeing dictatorial rules in the name of climate) we know what will happen. It's a very popular culturally infused meme, but not really. There are levels of "authoritarianism"...for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship#Lee_Kuan_Yew https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship#Lee_... https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMj8mXByQ/ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMj8mXByQ/ > People need to stop using climate change to push a political agenda (which is literally all that's done) and get behind building nuclear and carbon capture. People might benefit from wondering what needs to be done, rather than assuming that their intuition is correct. If we don't desire to know what is true, we may never reach it.
eastbound 3y ago
The alternative is that biased researchers are extremely bad at math when they want to demonstrate something they already agree with, and it’s a big nothing burger. Because, they’re so bad at math that when I compiled the figures they give, I find that we’ll get a +8°C and above scenario. So, if announce it’s even remotely possible to not fall into that scenario, it must be that their figures are better than they say.

mistermann 3y ago

> The consequences of communism or totalitarianism are well known and have recent precedents for how bad they will be. Climate change is an unknown, but throwing ourselves into the hands of a dictatorship (and that's what a lot of people are advocating, we're already seeing dictatorial rules in the name of climate) we know what will happen. It's a very popular culturally infused meme, but not really. There are levels of "authoritarianism"...for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship#Lee_Kuan_Yew https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship#Lee_... https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMj8mXByQ/ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMj8mXByQ/ > People need to stop using climate change to push a political agenda (which is literally all that's done) and get behind building nuclear and carbon capture. People might benefit from wondering what needs to be done, rather than assuming that their intuition is correct. If we don't desire to know what is true, we may never reach it.

eastbound 3y ago

The alternative is that biased researchers are extremely bad at math when they want to demonstrate something they already agree with, and it’s a big nothing burger. Because, they’re so bad at math that when I compiled the figures they give, I find that we’ll get a +8°C and above scenario. So, if announce it’s even remotely possible to not fall into that scenario, it must be that their figures are better than they say.