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You're being downvoted for several reasons, and I find them all maddening and infuriating. First, you've got those folks who are in deep denial about how much
by bloopernova 3y ago
You're being downvoted for several reasons, and I find them all maddening and infuriating.
First, you've got those folks who are in deep denial about how much we've utterly fucked our climate, i.e. "don't look up, just vote down!" Included in this group are those who think/feel "things got better over the past 100 years, so the next 100 years must be better too!"
Then you've got the astroturfers who are paid to minimize any discussion of climate disaster for whatever reason; governments, political movements, oil companies, etc. I see those in comments on the larger newspapers, they swarm in and state contradictory "facts" that confuse people and shut down discussion.
Personally, after the experience of COVID-19, the inability of governments to give up the easy money from oil etc, and the lack of reaction to extreme weather events, I think humanity is utterly doomed. If anyone survives, I don't think there will be more than a couple million people left at the end of this century.
People talk about "oh we'll just do X, Y, and Z to fix things" while forgetting that we'll have to do those things while dealing with:
Ecosystem and food supply collapse.
Resource wars.
Massive refugee migrations.
Worsening climate.
We are our own great filter.
- Geisterde 3y agoDude its called air conditioning, and we can grow the world economy to put it in every hut in africa within the decade if people are free, its impossible to "reverse" the effects havent you heard?
- taway_6PplYu5 3y agoI wonder what generates the power for this air conditioning? Do we also air condition the farms?
- Geisterde 3y agoFood production is up year over year, why are you worried about that?
- bloopernova 3y agoI can't make much sense of your comment. It sounds like you're proposing that we air condition anywhere affected by warming. What about farmer's fields? Oceans? Do you know how many people work outside to keep you in air conditioned comfort? Even if that were possible, humanity has shown that we will only do something worldwide when we're absolutely forced to. We will not be able to do that while dealing with the disasters that come with global climate catastrophe and ecological collapse.
- rhelz 3y ago// we can grow the world economy to put it in every hut in africa within the decade // A refresher in thermodynamics is in order here....thermal energy is...energy, which is a conserved quantity. Heat doesn't just disappear. An air conditioner cools the inside air by making the outside air hotter. And (thermodynamics strikes again) it also creates yet more waste heat in the process. // if people are free // Doesn't matter how free people or the markets are, thermodynamics is for real. We are not air-conditioning our way out of this.