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It'll never be too late to mitigate even worse effects. Remember that the defeatism is what people who want no change want.
by podgietaru 2mo ago
It'll never be too late to mitigate even worse effects. Remember that the defeatism is what people who want no change want.
- 1attice 2mo agoOh, it can be too late. Positive feedback loops and so forth.
- karmakurtisaani 2mo agoYes, but we don't know that. So mitigation is the only rational action.
- 1attice 2mo agoMaybe, maybe not. Rationality is not settled, and us philosophers argue about it all the time. :) What you want to say is that group survival is less and less likely the more we prevaricate, and acknowledging the severity of the situation may lead some people, perhaps many, to disengage. I would argue that this can be both rational, on an individual level; a dying man might blamelessly and rationally choose to smoke a cigarette, long after the cancer set in. What you are noticing, and rightfully afraid of, is that the window of time in which it is rational to act will close long before the heat kills us. Moreover, I can't think of a way of proving that this window has not yet closed, which means that, pending an argument, it might already have elapsed, or just about to. Scary stuff.
- jmclnx 2mo agoAnother way of saying "thoughts and prayers" :) Drastic mitigations need to start now, talking will do nothing. But with people voting in leaders like Trump, nothing will happen. And remember, when gas prices was high during Biden's Admin. ? He did all he could to get them lower, including opening up new oil fields. So both "sides" are to blame. We should have let the fossil fuel prices rise and force people to change their way of life. Instead our descendants will be force to change in ways that will be far worse then we would have if we started years ago.
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- m463 2mo agoI just think of easter island deforestation, endangered species poaching, container ships and bunker fuel, and setting the oil wells on fire in kuwait. I've read though that if we raise the standard of living of a population, they pollute less, so there might be a self-interest-based solution if we can do it globally.