4 ms·
Hypothesizing doom is always easy, no need to feel too bad about it.
by RandomLensman 3y ago
Hypothesizing doom is always easy, no need to feel too bad about it.
- hkt 3y agoMeasuring doom is hard, and there are an awful lot of people trying to work out exactly how bad things are and if they can be salvaged. No need to be too flippant about it.
- RandomLensman 3y agoI have been through so many doom cycles that by now I put far more value into solutions than worry. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, but not often enough.
- hkt 3y agoWhere climate change is concerned, there's not a cycle, just a massive decline. The problems and solutions have been known since the 1970s. Here's an example: a 1977 report detailing how the UK could satisfy its energy needs with no (or considerably less) oil[0]. That's the kind of solution (wind, solar, insulation, heat pumps) which would've solved the crisis we're facing now _years_ ago and robbed the petrostates of their power. Again, this is not a cycle: it is a trajectory. We know the solutions, as well as the problems. [0] https://cat.org.uk/download/26058/ https://cat.org.uk/download/26058/
- RandomLensman 3y agoI'd say we are coming off peak doom there currently. We even had weird doom by ice age in between, so not at all a constant set of doom.
- gavindean90 3y agoThe idea is that the effects of climate change were much stronger than the effects that were causing the potential ice age. Kind of like a small car on a train track, it may have slowed the advance but did not stop the momentum.
- RandomLensman 3y agoSorry, I just meant to point at the short-lived and somewhat hilarious doom news cycle of an impending ice age some decades back.
- adrianN 3y agoThat only existed in popsci, there was never a majority consensus about a coming ice age among climate scientists.