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by crispinb 8y ago
Australia's much the same. Our novelty Prime Minister even brought a chunk of coal into Parliament to demonstrate convincingly how nice and safe and clean it is. No coincidence that both nations are big fossil fuel producers.
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by crispinb 8y ago
By the way for anyone who hasn't come across it, https://climatefeedback.org is a valuable resource for assessing media reports of climate change studies. I've submitted this NYT story for review.
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by crispinb 8y ago
It's against HN guidelines to insinuate a commenter didn't read the article, but I'd at least suggest you read it again. She only pulls back from tipping point on the basis that political action could head it off. This is ide
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by crispinb 8y ago
It seems towards the end like one of the paper's authors demurs: > “I take issue with using ‘tipping point’ to describe the accelerating mass loss Greenland is experiencing,” But then: > Dr. Trusel agreed that talk of tipping poi
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Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point’(nytimes.com)
119 points by crispinb 8y ago|82 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
A good response & I'm definitely sympathetic to the notion that moral panics centre around departures from familiar (recent) norms. I still hold to the claim that the screen use experiment is (1) particularly radical in that it in
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by crispinb 8y ago
In any case you'd need longitudinal studies to properly evaluate any detrimental effects, given they are likely to be developmental in nature. > I think you have to possess a highly etiolated idea of what the human 'good'
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by crispinb 8y ago
So if it's not magic, what is the 'energy' whereof you speak? [Edit: that question's a tad rhetorical. Qi is the epitome of a pre/anti-scientific 'magical' concept]
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by crispinb 8y ago
Only if bewitched by the phrase. It's hard enough to agree philosophically on what constitutes well being for humans, so to accept psychological measures of it without very careful examination is a leap of faith I wouldn't take. &
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by crispinb 8y ago
> OP is saying that exercise is important for a healthy body and mind Well, they're also saying there exist magic 'energies' that can be 'rebalanced' to fix problems such as 'anxiety, mental imbalances, neur
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by crispinb 8y ago
I don't think you're an outlier. Most of the people I know who own them don't have a problem with the keyboards. But then they are outnumbered in my circles by people who've either deferred new MB Pro purchases, desperat
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by crispinb 8y ago
That's certainly the standard narrative - Berry isn't as counter-cultural as he thinks. He's just the mirror image of convention, but that buys in equally to the false nature/culture dichotomy. We don't 'intera
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by crispinb 8y ago
Though I sometimes enjoy Berry, he's wrong. We can't be 'at war' with nature. We are nature. Human destruction of ecosystems is a natural process - it's not fundamentally different from introduced flora & fauna
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by crispinb 8y ago
The "just" is unmerited. That was always the difficult part, necessitating the most gargantuan act of exaptation in the history of life on our planet. It was never very likely to work.
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by crispinb 8y ago
1. It's not 'this story' - it's a stream of new stories about collapses of insect populations in different ecosystems (a part of the wider stream of stories about ecosystem breakdown) 2. As for motivations for submitting
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by crispinb 8y ago
'Our' doesn't connote ownership. Our families are not owned by us. If anything the relationship is the other way around: we belong to the world that has formed us. > implying that we are killing the planet That would be a
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by crispinb 8y ago
Even 'living well' isn't quite right. By and large, we have swapped out physical for psychological suffering.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Exactly.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Our world is dying.
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Insect collapse(theguardian.com)
258 points by crispinb 8y ago|255 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
An interesting question, but I don't think it is specific to flat-earthers. Attachment to ideas is a human characteristic - hence the panoply of institutions and disciplines intended to circumvent it in science, journalism, etc. The i
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I think by the time the scientists were able to detect global warming/climate change it was already too late to fix it. Technologically, that's probably not true. Thatcher, for example raised alarms in the political/publ
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by crispinb 8y ago
There really is nothing too bizarre for some people to believe. Just one daft example I came across this morning: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/09/flat-earth-c... In relation to the downsi
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Maybe that magical technology to reverse things will appear Or maybe the OP will dissociate their identity from inherited ideas of endless 'progress' etc? After all, it would be an astonishing feat of exaptation for a cluster
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by crispinb 8y ago
> but all of them (and those around them) suffered personally from their dire fatalism That is factually false. I know many people whose lives have been greatly enhanced by a dawning understanding that the current dominating superstitio
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by crispinb 8y ago
Prediction timescales are always a bit of a stab in the dark, and 5-10 years seems a tad pessimistic. Having said that the overall picture you paint is hard to disagree with. The extremist 'economic growth' superstition that has n
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When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers(theguardian.com)
3 points by crispinb 8y ago|0 comments
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Vital ecosystems in tidal flats lost to development and rising sea levels(theguardian.com)
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by crispinb 8y ago
As notatoad notes: it's entirely impractical. There's no such thing as anchoring in the depths (3-5000m IIRC) prevailing in the Pacific gyre hosting the 'garbage patch'. This alone would require a revolution in marine en
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by crispinb 8y ago
My personal threshold for claiming dishonest motivations is higher than yours. I'd require, at a minimum, specific & direct evidence re the individuals involved, whereas the childish defensiveness you've come across is perfect

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