I remember growing up as a kid watching the intro sequence to the road warrior and thinking it was entertaining but pretty unlikely that we’d screw up that badly. But now it seems pretty prophetic.
There's a reason we don't give people more voting power in politics, economics, etc., based on the strength of their convictions.
If you want to have people follow proposals and programs you espouse, package the proposals & programs properly. "Pay more taxes to maintain status quo" doesn't cut it. "Earth will be uninhabitable in X years" has been cried one thousand times too many and will never be believable.
"Cheaper energy and nicer cars and cleaner environment and happier dolphins and less waste" is great. Even better, the case makes itself: most people have already witnessed great improvements in all those through our lifetimes, and can easily imagine more of the good stuff.
A pale blue dot, if you can keep it.
So I guess we’ll see if natural selection removes people like you from the gene pool so the species itself can continue to evolve or if the dynamics are too extreme and this is part of the great filter.
natural selection pressure the species whole, what survives next is just those that were somehow more adapt to the new environment, it doesn't carry any punitive or karmatic meaning.
it might very well be that psychopaths will be the one surviving the first aftermath by virtue of their selfishness
Maybe in this case selection pressure applies to entire species or planets and is one of the reasons we haven't detected any signs of intelligent life outside the solar system?
It's not that not caring is "wrong", it just has a lower chance of beating natural selection.
Er, actually that's just it. It's (to put it mildly) eccentric to think otherwise.
They will obscure the axioms they're arguing from so as to not get immediately dismissed, and instead just look rational at a glance and intellectually dishonest when you ask too many questions or read too carefully.
Props to CzechTech for being upfront at least.
I have spent last 10 years travelling, sailing the ocean, hiking in jungles, diving in the reefs that would be extinct soon. I live in a climate where some moderate warming will make more pleasant.
I do not care what will happen beyond 20 years ahead. Maybe even less.
So why would I inconvinience myself? Why worry? People will get exactly what they deserve.
On the other hand somehow it doesn't seem right.
Perhaps but I haven't seen any of my middle class friends taking their children to school on a bike or by public transport. And when I point that it is possible it is always "Meh, it is more convinient in my car and I am above that".
If people with children do not care why should I?
When you were growing up, did you watch NASA's James Hansen saying in 2008 that we would have NO Arctic sea ice in summer by 2018? Was he correct? No?
Got a full quote in context? You "skeptics" have a tendency to miss things like "as soon as" and "if this trend continues".
That's not even a quote, let alone one in context.