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Why is a single day of productivity more important than the health of the country? Also, the last few years of insane wildfires are in part due to climate chang
by jihiggins 3y ago
Why is a single day of productivity more important than the health of the country? Also, the last few years of insane wildfires are in part due to climate change. We're way past the point of both having and eating that particular cake, as it's long past its expiration date.
That said, Covid has already seen us pick "productivity" over what was basically the health of the entire country, so...
- vuln 3y ago[flagged]
- brutusborn 3y agoI chose the CNN one at random, it doesn’t mention the motive of the arsonists. I don’t think you can just assume they are all due to climate activists.
- ceejayoz 3y agoAs far as I can tell, only one of them hints at even a potential political motive, and that was an animal rights activist burning down a slaughterhouse.
- ejb999 3y agodoesn't really matter what the motives are - the news regularly tell us that the wildfires are a result of climate change (with no proof) - when in fact a lot of them are caused by arsonists - clearly not by climate change. Nothing wrong with calling out lies in the media.
- Qwertious 3y agoThe key metric of wildfires that climate change affects is their intensity - once the fire is lit, they'll cause far more destruction and burn much longer in a hot, dry environment than they will in a cold wet one.
- brutusborn 3y agoIs there actually any evidence of this? I agree with the mechanism you describe, but I imagine increasing temps by a degree would have marginal effects compared to things like forest management. If we want to reduce harms from fires, I don’t think combatting climate change would make the top 5 in terms of effective policy.
- endemic 3y ago_Starting_ the fire is a problem, but also the fact that they are burning extensively & uncontrollably.
- ShrigmaMale 3y agoproductivity is what feeds and powers the country. it's amazing how many people forget that no amount of financial engineering will permanently abstract the physical output of goods and services countries produce. there's a line between PE vultures juicing the marginal penny and just totally discarding productivity.