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by GVIrish 7y ago
> It is not that Michael Shellenberger is wrong, he is mostly right and I also like to point out to people that we are not facing extinction. I think he is wrong on this in that if we don't address climate change, we are on the road
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Yes we really need to invest heavily in exploring geoengineering solutions while we still have time. Those solutions may have major trade offs, but the sooner we have an idea of what those are, the better. But I think the reality is that
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See also: + ocean acidification + fisheries collapse
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Sergei Magnitsky brought light to Russia corruption and paid with his life. But because of his sacrifice, the United States, UK, Canada, and others implemented the Magnitsky Act which allows for the sanctioning of individuals involved in h
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Yes I have a hard time understanding that perspective as well. If someone opens a business in my city and doesn't speak enough English (or Spanish) to complete a business transaction, I just wouldn't do business with them, and it
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There are a couple of things that could upset the geopolitical status quo in a way that could lead to war in Europe. A massive influx of refugees from the Middle East in particular could have the effect of destabilizing any of the countries
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> A well compensated white collar professional will get judged hard for driving a pickup in some social circles and I think this styling is to help get around that. I think Tesla could've met that desire without making the truck loo
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The average consumer of a truck cares about the looks. Unless the Cybertruck allows buyers to address a use case that is so compelling that they're willing to excuse the looks, Tesla is not going to sell many of these. Maybe Tesla is
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The answer to bad regulations is not necessarily no regulations. The taxi medallion system was broken and in need of an overhaul. Replacing a broken system with a ridesharing Wild West is not optimal. I agree that there needs to be a lot
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How would it make your life worse if in addition to the usb-c ports there was a sd card port and usb-a? Does switching away from magsafe make it more likely or less likely for the MacBook to get accidentally pulled to the floor? I'm n
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The point is not that you can't do those things, the point is that it's been made more difficult for little to no discernible benefit. Apple has been going down this path of making thinness such a high priority that utility has
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Interfaces change, but making the switch too early makes it needlessly painful. I mean, how does it make sense that Apple's own iPhone and iPad don't plug directly into Macbooks without a dongle? I mean, why stop there? Apple co
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The long game may trend towards USB-C, but in the meantime Apple made the Macbook Pro less usable for people who want to do actual work. How is it better to have to manage a bag full of dongles when Apple easily could've included the
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What I'm saying is that it would be very, very difficult to mitigate catastrophic insect loss by switching consumption to primarily vegetables. Climate change is here, and is going to get worse. Losing pollinators and the collapse of
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In the worst case scenario weather patterns will shift enough that large scale agriculture will fail in parts of the world that are currently productive. Heat waves, floods, and drought can and will destroy entire crops. Furthermore, sea l
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That may be because mosquito predators have been hit very hard by pesticides whereas the mosquitos have developed resistance. A dragonfly eating mosquitos ends up with a higher concentration of a pesticide because it eats a lot of other ins
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We are already in the middle of a mass extinction caused by human activity. Even in the wikipedia article you linked it talks about extinctions of 40% of species if we get to 3 degrees of warming. There is high variance in estimates about
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> I don't understand how you can begin with a somewhat rational argument about overpopulation and then jump to the completely irrational conclusion that for some reason global warming (as a root cause) will kill us, rather than over
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> I had a turning point with climate change when I realized carbon emissions almost definitely won't transform Earth into a martian wasteland incapable of supporting life. The natural ecosystem adapts to ice ages, meteors, and other
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The bigger issue with geoengineering is that it may have massive unknown side effects. Stratospheric sulphur spraying may cool the climate, but we don't know how it will shift weather patterns or any other unknown effects. If things g
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> The absolute best way to fix the problem is to develop new technologies which are cleaner and cheaper and equivalent or better than what they are replacing. Yes and no. We absolutely have to pursue cleaner technologies but many of tho
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As a sibling comment said, some people are griefers who only seek to inconvenience or otherwise harass others. Particularly with online games.
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What good is industrializing recklessly going to do for Brazil or any other developing nation when climate catastrophe destroys all of those GDP gains and more, causes food crises, destroys trillions of dollars of coastal real estate, and c
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I think social media companies can do more to eliminate fake accounts, but I would stop at the point of being too draconian about using real names. What is going to keep coming up as an issue, is how actively social media companies want to
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> The thing that bothers me the most about framing this as "foreign influence" is that precisely no one knows even remotely accurately how much foreign influence is taking place in Western countries, but this meme has been repe
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> I think that blaming Russians for everything is doing more harm than good. How is the pdf in any way blaming Russians for everything ? The fact is that Russian intelligence services and affiliates are running disinformation operation
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Check out Snowden's inteview with John Oliver. Snowden outright admitted he hadn't read all the documents. He said he was 'familiar' with them.
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People should be very worried about this. Some parts of the world are already unstable, imagine what happens when food supplies dramatically contract or areas are hit with multiple weather disasters. There is a lot of strain and turmoil o
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> Nobody is going to drown. People will do some combination of building walls, raising land, and moving. What are you talking about, people are drowning now . When a big storm tears through a low lying area or there is flooding, people
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> Frankly this kind of doomsaying view has no basis in reality. While it's true that unmitigated global warming will impose a very large economic cost, it's simply not the case that it's going to turn the world into some u

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