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I 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.
by RandomLensman 3y ago
I 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.