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It’s not critical, it’s arbitrary. The earth is warming, it’s going to keep warming. What we should do is focus on practical responses to both limit future war
by colechristensen 3y ago
It’s not critical, it’s arbitrary. The earth is warming, it’s going to keep warming. What we should do is focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading.
The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.
- ranguna 3y agoWhat? It's critical, so let's focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading. A lot of people over-dramatise the situation, but we should be afraid to use words like "critical" when they make sense.
- colechristensen 3y agoWhat I mean is the number isn’t critical. 1.9 degrees or 2.1 degrees aren’t substantially different, 2.0 degrees is an arbitrary milestone not a critical threshold. There is nothing particularly special about 2 with regards to outcomes.
- ranguna 3y agoThere's nothing particularly special about any number, because by each 0.1 increase more species go extinct on average. We have to pick a point where we say "that's enough species gone", and 2 is bad enough. 1.9,1.8 etc is already critical imo
- senectus1 3y agowell... it does help to motivate the lazy. sometimes.
- colechristensen 3y agoQuite the opposite. The doom attitude demotivates many people who don’t believe it. It’s easy to disprove or disbelieve exaggeration and emotional appeals and as a result the things which do need to be believed are thrown out with the exaggerations. The primary thing exaggeration does is convince a small number of people that they also need to loudly exaggerate adding more noise drowning out the folks who aren’t exaggerating and need to be heard.
- generic92034 3y ago> The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody. That is one angle to influence politicians, though. In public they like to claim moral superiority.
- colechristensen 3y agoWell now we have half of the political spectrum claiming morality with one extreme position and the other half claiming morality with the opposite extreme. Fear is a bad way to govern.
- generic92034 3y agoCould you please point out the two extremes? Also, a threat is a threat. Ignoring it does not make it less of a threat, usually.
- Dban1 3y agoehh since it's already happening might as well don't care