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> Like, people in the 20th century were living in constant fear of mutually assured destruction for dozens of years. Is that better or worse than the guaranteed
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
> Like, people in the 20th century were living in constant fear of mutually assured destruction for dozens of years. Is that better or worse than the guaranteed collapse of the ecosystem? I couldn’t tell.
The fallacy in your argument is that climate disaster is already happening. We have already rendered hundreds of species extinct. It is not a future risk.
- ben_w 2y agoThe nature and severity of climate change risks to other species is something I can be sad about, without it being also a risk to us. Likewise in reverse, there are ways a nuclear war could be relatively good for almost every species except humans, our livestock, and our pets. Given the trends on renewables, I think we're going to solve the climate… but also a whole bunch of seemingly unrelated trends start implying silly things starting in the early 2030s, so expect something else to become a problem soon enough.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoWell then, that is where we differ because I am much more concerned about other species.