I don't believe we'll ever succeed in dealing with climate change. It's going to kill us all and the people in power will refuse to accept responsibility the whole while.
Happy to be proven wrong!
Happy to be proven wrong!
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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We just live in an age where we're hyper-aware of our actions. I believe if we get out of an emergency, "we're all going to die" mindset, we may actually have a chance.
Bringing children into this world isn't doing them any favors; at all.
Things are literally the best they've ever been. They could get much worse but any reasonable prediction still puts us ahead of the expected life of someone in the 19th century.
If you don't want to have children, that's your choice. You don't have to justify it by putting your morality on other people.
I don't recall where I heard it but before I knew it was a quote, I used to say this all the time: humanity is three square meals away from total annihilation. One day without food and humans will revert right back to our caveman "attack other human, take food" lizard brains.
I definitely went a little off topic from your original post but, "adapt to the changes" isn't honestly something I can fathom happening. I don't know where you live - be it a city or suburbs or otherwise - but think about 30 million people showing up and tell me that doesn't end in a massive disaster.
I'm a cryptography-focused security engineer, not a climate scientist.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16000870.2019.1...
I'd have to know a lot more before deciding that either a runaway greenhouse or net cooling is plausible, let alone likely.
Even with 5 or 7 degrees celsius warming there's still a lot of habitable land. The main concern is that agricultural capacity will be lower overall. This will disproportionately impact poorer countries that have less resources to do things like improve irrigation infrastructure, or set up large thermonuclear desalination plants to cope with lower water supply.
It's on the people in power. If they wanted, they could use the resources at their disposal (media, etc) to change people's opinions almost over-night.
The way they did after 9/11.
It is absolutely on them; and on no one else.
Doesn't really work with the fact that there's about 7.7 billion people.
It's very unlikely that Biden will take significantly more steps to deal with climate change than Trump will.
The political will to deal with climate change simply isn't there; it would piss off too many lobbyists.