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This comment puts you deep in the "have not yet realized the magnitude of the forces at work" category > There is time to mitigate and adapt. The ecosystem ca

This comment puts you deep in the "have not yet realized the magnitude of the forces at work" category > There is time to mitigate and adapt. The ecosystem can't adapt fast enough, we depend on it for _everything_. > Nuclear is back on the table. Cool, it doesn't make steel, or cement, or asphalt, or plastics, or petrol derivates, which are all absolutely essential to our modern lifestyle. > We may still have a breakthrough in fusion. It still doesn't really solve anything > AI will help with better predictive models and eliminating waste. will ? None of that solves ocean acidification, none of that revert the feedback loops, none of that allows us to continue with our wasteful lifestyles, non of that restores the wildlife we absolutely decimated. It all sounds like a sect now, ignoring the present, hoping for a better future while everything points the other way. "Just pray a little more and it'll come to life"

tim333 2y ago
Though if you look at the history of the earth the climate has fluctuated constantly, millions of species have evolved and gone extinct, 99% have been wiped out by meteors at times. Humans have only been here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it. It's a bit overdone to panic over it getting slightly warmer.
- lm28469 2y ago
  Well first of all it fluctuated much much much slower, and even if we skip that part, getting wiped out doesn't seem very desirable. Of course the planet and life in general will continue, what will degrade over time is the abundance we enjoyed up until now. The fact that we changed so much despite being "here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it" is the alarming part lol https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74b36167-f2b8-4a40-b1eb-ca7735e6c521_923x494.png https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jp...

tim333 2y ago

Though if you look at the history of the earth the climate has fluctuated constantly, millions of species have evolved and gone extinct, 99% have been wiped out by meteors at times. Humans have only been here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it. It's a bit overdone to panic over it getting slightly warmer.

lm28469 2y ago
Well first of all it fluctuated much much much slower, and even if we skip that part, getting wiped out doesn't seem very desirable. Of course the planet and life in general will continue, what will degrade over time is the abundance we enjoyed up until now. The fact that we changed so much despite being "here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it" is the alarming part lol https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74b36167-f2b8-4a40-b1eb-ca7735e6c521_923x494.png https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jp...