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In general very small part of population will choose certain suffering now to avoid uncertain suffering in future. Actively doing enough against climate change
by Ekaros 2y ago
In general very small part of population will choose certain suffering now to avoid uncertain suffering in future.
Actively doing enough against climate change will have very real and likely significant quality of life change now. And if lot of people don't think their quality of life is high enough now, why would they want it to go lower. And sadly rich are always insulated either way.
- orwin 2y agoThey truly won't be. global supply lines will probably be the first casualties that will trigger mainstream realization, and however deep your Hawaiian bunker is, feeding your plumber without those will be difficult.
- triceratops 2y agoThat's probably why they want AGI and robotics.
- ianburrell 2y agoAGI and robotics will have the worst supply situation. They depend on expensive GPUs and complicated machinery from across the world.
- suzzer99 2y agoIt's not that they know they're sacrificing their grandchildrens' future for their current quality of life. It's that they'll believe the flimsiest arguments that climate change isn't happening. Cognitive dissonance is undefeated.