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It doesn't help my existential dread when the phrasing is "the thing thing we didn't know existed a few weeks ago that would cause gnarly problems if it was clo
by ceroxylon 3y ago
It doesn't help my existential dread when the phrasing is "the thing thing we didn't know existed a few weeks ago that would cause gnarly problems if it was closer is close enough to see with the naked eye soon!", but I will indeed be on top of a hill looking out for it.
- dylan604 3y agoDon't look up
- BossingAround 3y agoThat was both a funny and deeply depresing movie. Would recommend. Hope that it's not gonna transform into a prophecy/documentary at some point.
- hef19898 3y agoI guess it will, as does Idiocracy I am afraid. Or not. But yes, don't look up was funny!
- developer93 3y agoIdiocracy is based on a false premise
- ctoth 3y agoI'd love to learn more about this. I thought it was based on The Marching Morons by Kornbluth and the subsequent discussion between Niven and Asimov I read many years ago. It seemed true then. It seems more true today.
- developer93 3y agoOK, fiction writers aren't (often) scientists so while such discussions might be interesting you should not take them as authoritative & evidence based. It's a slightly eugenic fallacy which assumes that a) poor people are poor because they're stupid and feckless, and no other reason like the inbuilt injustices on our society (it's considerably easier to stay rich than to get rich) and b) education, upbringing and innate intelligence are the same thing. Life situation isn't genetics.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIdiocracy is an absurd comedy that triggered some people's prejudices and made them think they were right. (It doesn't look like the author shares those prejudices. That's a nightmare scenario, you make some dadist art and an entire population of bigoted people make you their leader.) Don't look up is a comedy about global warming.
- tongueinkek 3y agoThis has to be sarcasm, right? It is a direct allegory for the climate crisis that is currently, actively unfolding.
- hutzlibu 3y agoThat is of course true, but the climate crisis is way more abstract than a concrete hit that is coming at a fixed date. So yes, more and more people acknowledge now, that the weather seems to get more extreme, but that's about it. Boiling frog effect.
- willis936 3y agoThe fact that the narratively-low-value, could-be-anything-other-than-climate-change existential crisis was one of the more plausible existential crises was one of my favorite parts of the movie. At least one of the parts that gave me a feeling of joy.
- b112 3y agoI'll make sure to hide in my iron clad basement. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/
- DoreenMichele 3y agoEveryone is wringing their hands about climate change steadily boiling the earth when a comet could wipe us out like it supposedly wiped out dinosaurs. I actually sort of find this amusing, fwiw.
- simmerup 3y agoIt’s probably worth worrying more about climate change which is a feedback loop we’re directly causing, versus an major asteroid impact which is a once every 300~ million year occurrence
- DoreenMichele 3y agoIt's probably worth trying to do something constructive about it. Bellyaching is generally not constructive and the emotional baggage the world has on the topic seems distinctly counterproductive, actively making it nigh impossible to have meaty discussion about real solutions. People are quick to dismiss any effort to solve it as "hopeless" and "pointless" and "not enough."
- uoaei 3y agoI think you're projecting a lot.
- midnitewarrior 3y agoThe only real solution to climate change is mass genocide of the human race. 8 billion people is not sustainable for the planet. Every human has wants and needs that they prioritize over the health of the planet. We can "green" some of those things up, but it simply delays the inevitable by a few years if we are lucky. Of course, if some genius gets the population of the Earth to somehow stop wanting the things that emit carbon (transportation, hot water, hot food, modern infrastructure), while maintaining / growing the population, then humanity will have a front-row seat for collapse of society due to resource depletion, rapid species collapse of animals, microplastics-infused water pollution poisoning all that remains. The only thing, aside from mass genocide, to slow all of that down is for every human to use less. Every CEO has to pledge to sell less each year. Every consumer must pledge to use less every year. The societal controls put in place to enforce this will eventually result in the overthrow of governments that attempt to impose this on their citizens. We are humans, and what you see happening to the world is simply what humans do. If you want to see less climate change, less resource depletion, less toxic waste, then we need fewer people if we want to make this planet survivable for longer. It's good to make our activities more green, use renewable resources, recycle, etc., but the reality is that most of those things will only delay the inevitable. Delay is good, pushing the timeline out for the consequences of our actions is something humans are good at.
- finite_depth 3y ago[dead]
- rapnie 3y agoEspecially knowing that if this is a collision course extinction event type thing, only Bruce Willis and a few others get the initial phone call.